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fetch
by modelcontextprotocol
wikipedia-mcp
by Rudra-ravi
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30d uses
Score7652
Official
Categories
Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
AI / LLM ToolsSearchKnowledge Graph
LanguageTypeScriptPython
Last committhis month1 mo ago

fetch · Summary

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

wikipedia-mcp · Summary

An MCP server providing Wikipedia access with search, article retrieval, summaries, and multi-language support.

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

wikipedia-mcp · Use cases

  • Enhance AI responses with verified, up-to-date information from Wikipedia
  • Build research assistants that can fact-check against reliable sources
  • Create multilingual knowledge bots that access content in different languages

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"]
    }
  }
}

wikipedia-mcp · Install

Using pipx (Recommended for Claude Desktop)

pip install pipx
pipx ensurepath
pipx install wikipedia-mcp

Configuration for Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "command": "wikipedia-mcp"
    }
  }
}
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