mcp-link vs fetch

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	mcp-link by automation-ai-labs	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
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Categories	Developer ToolsWeb ScrapingOther	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	14 mo ago	this month

mcp-link · Summary

MCP Link automatically converts any OpenAPI V3 API into a fully-functional MCP server.

fetch · Summary

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

mcp-link · Use cases

Convert existing REST APIs to MCP servers for AI agent integration without code changes
Rapidly prototype MCP interfaces for new APIs using OpenAPI specifications
Unify API access across different services through a standardized MCP interface

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

mcp-link · Install

Installation

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/automation-ai-labs/mcp-link.git
cd mcp-link

# Install dependencies
go mod download

Running

# Specify port
go run main.go serve --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0

Usage in Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openapi-mcp": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8080/sse?s=[OpenAPI-Spec-URL]&u=[API-Base-URL]&h=[Auth-Header]:[Value-Prefix]"
    }
  }
}

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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