mcp vs fetch
Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.
mcp by cloudflare | fetch by modelcontextprotocol | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | ★ 459 | ★ 85,748 |
| 30d uses | — | — |
| Score | 53 | 76 |
| Official | — | ✓ |
| Categories | Developer ToolsOps & InfraWeb Scraping | Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last commit | this month | this month |
mcp · Summary
Token-efficient MCP server for Cloudflare API with 2500 endpoints accessible via Code Mode.
fetch · Summary
An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.
mcp · Use cases
- Automating Cloudflare resource management through AI agents
- CI/CD workflows for Cloudflare deployment and configuration
- Interactive queries and analysis of Cloudflare analytics data
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 · Install
Installation
- Add to Claude Desktop:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cloudflare-api": {
"url": "https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp"
}
}
}- For API Token authentication:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cloudflare-api": {
"url": "https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp",
"bearerToken": "YOUR_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"
}
}
}- Disable Code Mode (if needed):
{
"mcpServers": {
"cloudflare-api": {
"url": "https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp?codemode=false"
}
}
}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-fetchThen run as:
python -m mcp_server_fetchClaude Desktop Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetch": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
}
}
}