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mcptube
by 0xchamin
fetch
by modelcontextprotocol
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30d uses
Score4776
Official
Categories
AI / LLM ToolsMediaKnowledge Graph
Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
LanguagePythonTypeScript
Last commit1 mo agothis month

mcptube · Summary

MCP server that transforms YouTube videos into a persistent knowledge base with transcripts, vision analysis, and agentic search.

fetch · Summary

An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.

mcptube · Use cases

  • Researching topics across multiple educational YouTube videos
  • Building a personal knowledge base from tutorial content
  • Enhancing AI assistants with video-specific context

fetch · Use cases

  • LLMs reading news articles and blogs
  • Content analysis of web pages
  • Retrieving information from public websites
  • Chunked reading of large web documents

mcptube · Install

pip install mcptube

For MCP server setup in Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcptube": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcptube.mcp_server"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

fetch · Install

Installation

**Using uv (recommended)** No specific installation needed. Use uvx to run the server directly:

uvx mcp-server-fetch

**Using PIP** Install via pip:

pip install mcp-server-fetch

Then run as:

python -m mcp_server_fetch

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
    }
  }
}
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