fetch vs google-search

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	fetch by modelcontextprotocol	google-search by web-agent-master
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 595
30d uses	—	—
Score	76	45
Official	✓	—
Categories	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	SearchWeb ScrapingBrowser Automation
Language	TypeScript	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	14 mo ago

fetch · Summary

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

google-search · Summary

Playwright-based Google search tool with MCP server integration that bypasses anti-bot detection.

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

google-search · Use cases

Enabling AI assistants to perform real-time Google searches without API keys
Providing a local alternative to paid SERP APIs for developers and researchers
Facilitating web scraping and data extraction from Google search results
Supporting AI applications that need current web information and real-time search capabilities

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"]
    }
  }
}

google-search · Install

# Install from source
git clone https://github.com/web-agent-master/google-search.git
cd google-search
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Compile TypeScript code
npm run build
# Link package globally (required for MCP functionality)
npm link

For Claude Desktop integration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["google-search-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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