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gistpad-mcp
by lostintangent
fetch
by modelcontextprotocol
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GitHubProductivityKnowledge Graph
Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
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gistpad-mcp · Summary

MCP server for managing knowledge, notes and prompts via GitHub Gists with extensive tooling for gist operations.

fetch · Summary

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

gistpad-mcp · Use cases

  • Managing personal knowledge bases stored as GitHub Gists
  • Creating and tracking daily todos and notes
  • Building and sharing reusable prompts with AI assistants

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

gistpad-mcp · Install

Installation

  1. Install the [GistPad VS Code extension](https://aka.ms/gistpad) for seamless integration
  1. For other MCP clients:

``json { "mcpServers": { "gistpad": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "gistpad-mcp"], "env": { "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_PAT>" } } } } ``

  1. Optional: Add flags to enable additional features: --daily, --starred, --archived, --prompts

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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