fetch-mcp

fetch-mcp is an MCP server that provides tools to fetch arbitrary URLs (returning HTML or Markdown) and to fetch YouTube video transcripts.

Evaluated Mar 30, 2026 (21d ago)

Repo ↗ API Gateway mcp fetch web-scraping youtube transcripts typescript stdio sse

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

No auth mechanism is documented; running an HTTP/SSE server without authentication increases risk if exposed publicly. Fetching arbitrary URLs implies potential SSRF-like risks and data exfiltration risks unless agents strictly validate inputs and the server is sandboxed/network-restricted. TLS usage is not documented; assume transport depends on how the server is deployed.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

You need lightweight MCP-accessible tools for fetching public web content and YouTube transcripts, integrated into an LLM agent.

Avoid When

You need strong security controls for untrusted inputs, guaranteed compliance requirements, or industrial-grade uptime/reliability guarantees.

Use Cases

• Augment an agent with web-page fetching and content extraction
• Retrieve and summarize YouTube video transcripts
• Convert fetched HTML into Markdown for downstream LLM processing
• Provide MCP tool access to crawling/transcript retrieval inside agent workflows

Not For

• Authenticated/private content scraping where credentials are required
• High-volume crawling without attention to rate limits or robots/terms
• Use as a secure gateway for untrusted user-provided URLs without additional sandboxing

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes

SDK

Webhooks

Authentication

OAuth: No Scopes: No

README does not mention authentication or API keys; likely operates without auth for local/agent-to-server use.

Pricing

Free tier: No

Requires CC: No

No pricing information provided (appears to be an open-source npm package intended to run self-hosted).

Agent Metadata

Pagination

none

Idempotent

False

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Untrusted URL inputs can trigger unexpected network access behaviors; agents should validate/allowlist domains.
⚠ YouTube transcript availability varies by video/region; tool may fail or return empty transcripts.
⚠ If running as an HTTP/SSE server, ensure network exposure is controlled (bind address/firewall) since no auth is documented.

Alternatives

@modelcontextprotocol/sdk-based custom MCP servers you implement for your specific needs Generic web fetching services/APIs (e.g., readability/document extraction APIs) plus a custom MCP wrapper YouTube transcript libraries/APIs plus a custom MCP wrapper

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.