fetch vs powhttp-mcp

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	fetch by modelcontextprotocol	powhttp-mcp by usestring
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 71
30d uses	—	—
Score	76	48
Official	✓	—
Categories	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	Developer ToolsWeb ScrapingMonitoring
Language	TypeScript	Go
Last commit	this month	2 mo ago

fetch · Summary

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

powhttp-mcp · Summary

MCP server enabling AI assistants to analyze HTTP traffic captured by powhttp with advanced debugging capabilities.

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

powhttp-mcp · Use cases

Debugging web scraping bots to identify anti-bot detection mechanisms
Analyzing API behavior to understand data structures and endpoints
Generating scrapers from observed HTTP traffic patterns

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"]
    }
  }
}

powhttp-mcp · Install

Installation

Install via go install:

go install github.com/usestring/powhttp-mcp/cmd/powhttp-mcp@latest

Adding to Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "powhttp": {
      "command": "powhttp-mcp",
      "env": {
        "POWHTTP_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:7777",
        "POWHTTP_PROXY_URL": "http://localhost:8888"
      }
    }
  }
}

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