AuthorProfileMCP vs fetch

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	AuthorProfileMCP by alperenkocyigit	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 2	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	34	76
Official	—	✓
Categories	Knowledge GraphAI / LLM ToolsOther	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Python	TypeScript
Last commit	6 mo ago	this month

AuthorProfileMCP · Summary

Academic author network MCP server for analyzing research collaborations and extracting keywords from scholarly profiles.

fetch · Summary

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

AuthorProfileMCP · Use cases

Academic research collaboration discovery
Research trend analysis through author keywords
Building academic network visualizations

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

AuthorProfileMCP · Install

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/alperenkocyigit/AuthorProfileMCP.git
cd AuthorProfileMCP

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run server
python server.py

For Claude Desktop, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "author-profile": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/AuthorProfileMCP/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

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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