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claude-homelab
by jmagar
fetch
by modelcontextprotocol
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Categories
MediaMonitoringOps & InfraProductivity
Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
LanguageShellTypeScript
Last commit1 mo agothis month

claude-homelab · Summary

HomeLab management plugin for Claude with 16+ integrations for media, infrastructure monitoring, and document management.

fetch · Summary

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

claude-homelab · Use cases

  • Managing media libraries through Plex with automation for movie/TV show requests
  • Monitoring homelab infrastructure including Docker containers, ZFS pools, and system resources
  • Managing documents with integrations to Linkding bookmarks, Memos notes, and Paperless-ngx

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

claude-homelab · Install

Installation

Claude Marketplace

/plugin marketplace add jmagar/claude-homelab
/plugin install homelab-core @jmagar-claude-homelab

Manual Install

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmagar/claude-homelab/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Configuration

After installation, set up credentials using:

/homelab-core:setup

This will create and populate ~/.claude-homelab/.env with your service credentials.

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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