fetch vs web-agent-protocol

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	fetch by modelcontextprotocol	web-agent-protocol by OTA-Tech-AI
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 497
30d uses	—	—
Score	76	48
Official	✓	—
Categories	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	Browser AutomationWeb ScrapingAI / LLM Tools
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	11 mo ago

fetch · Summary

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

web-agent-protocol · Summary

Web Agent Protocol (WAP) records browser interactions and converts them into MCP servers for web automation replay.

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

web-agent-protocol · Use cases

Automating repetitive web tasks by recording and replaying user interactions
Creating MCP servers from browser workflows for AI agent automation
Testing web applications by replaying exact user interaction sequences

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"]
    }
  }
}

web-agent-protocol · Install

# Install dependencies
conda create -n WAP python=3.11
conda activate WAP
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Set environment variables
set PYTHONPATH=/path/to/webagentprotocol  # Windows
export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/webagentprotocol  # Linux

# Create .env file with API keys
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-proj-...
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-...

# Install Chrome extension
# See https://github.com/OTA-Tech-AI/webagentprotocol/tree/main/chrome-extension

For Claude Desktop integration, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wap": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/webagentprotocol/wap_service.py"]
    }
  }
}```

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