fetch vs trading-mcp

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	fetch by modelcontextprotocol	trading-mcp by netanelavr
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 71
30d uses	—	—
Score	76	43
Official	✓	—
Categories	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	FinanceAI / LLM ToolsWeb Scraping
Language	TypeScript	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	10 mo ago

fetch · Summary

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

trading-mcp · Summary

Trading MCP server providing stock screening, fundamental analysis, insider trading, social sentiment, and news analysis.

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

trading-mcp · Use cases

Financial analysts evaluating stocks using multiple data points simultaneously
Individual investors researching social sentiment and insider trading patterns
Algorithmic traders screening stocks based on technical patterns and metrics

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"]
    }
  }
}

trading-mcp · Install

Installation

**Clone and install dependencies:**

git clone <repository-url>
cd trading-mcp
npm install

**Build the project:**

npm run build

**Configure in Claude Desktop:**

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trading-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/trading-mcp/dist/server.js"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-your-openai-api-key-here",
        "REDDIT_CLIENT_ID": "your-reddit-client-id",
        "REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-reddit-client-secret",
        "REDDIT_USERNAME": "your-reddit-username",
        "REDDIT_PASSWORD": "your-reddit-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

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