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AIRA-SemanticScholar
by hamid-vakilzadeh
fetch
by modelcontextprotocol
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30d uses
Score4376
Official
Categories
AI / LLM ToolsKnowledge GraphSearch
Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
LanguageTypeScriptTypeScript
Last commit2 mo agothis month

AIRA-SemanticScholar · Summary

MCP server providing AI models with access to Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for literature search and analysis.

fetch · Summary

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

AIRA-SemanticScholar · Use cases

  • Academic researchers conducting literature reviews in specific fields
  • AI assistants needing to access and analyze research papers
  • Research institutions building custom knowledge management systems

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

AIRA-SemanticScholar · Install

Installation

  1. Using npx:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aira-semanticscholar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "aira-semanticscholar"]
    }
  }
}
  1. Using Smithery:

Visit the [Smithery listing](https://smithery.ai/server/@hamid-vakilzadeh/mcpsemanticscholar) for more installation options.

  1. For full-text access to Wiley papers, add the WILEY_TDM_CLIENT_TOKEN environment variable:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aira-semanticscholar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "aira-semanticscholar"],
      "env": {
        "WILEY_TDM_CLIENT_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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