XHS-Downloader vs fetch

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	XHS-Downloader by JoeanAmier	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 11,172	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	59	76
Official	—	✓
Categories	MediaWeb ScrapingDeveloper Tools	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Python	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

XHS-Downloader · Summary

XHS-Downloader is a MCP server for downloading content from XiaoHongShu (RedNote) platform with API and MCP capabilities.

fetch · Summary

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

XHS-Downloader · Use cases

Automatically downloading XiaoHongShu content for personal archiving
Building applications that integrate with XiaoHongShu content through MCP protocol
Batch processing of XiaoHongShu content with API calls

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

XHS-Downloader · Install

Installation

**Docker (Recommended)**

``bash docker pull joeanamier/xhs-downloader docker run -p 5556:5556 -v xhs_downloader_volume:/app/Volume -it joeanamier/xhs-downloader python main.py mcp ``

**From Source**

``bash git clone https://github.com/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader.git cd XHS-Downloader pip install -r requirements.txt python main.py mcp ``

**Claude Desktop Configuration**: Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xhs-downloader": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["path/to/main.py", "mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PYTHONPATH": "path/to/repo"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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