webfetch MCP Server

Name: webfetch MCP Server
Author: io.github.firish

io.github.firish/webfetch

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What is the webfetch MCP server?

Self-hosted web search for LLM agents: search -> fetch -> rank pipeline with semantic caching

How to install webfetch

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

BRAVE_API_KEY
secret
Optional - adds Brave to the multi-engine fusion. DDG works with no keys at all.
SERPER_API_KEY
secret
Optional - adds Serper (Google results) to the multi-engine fusion.
TAVILY_API_KEY
secret
Optional - adds Tavily to the multi-engine fusion.
WEBFETCH_PROVIDER
Optional - search strategy: multi (RRF fusion of available engines, default), fallback (priority failover), or a single engine name like ddg.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webfetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "webfetch-llm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "WEBFETCH_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webfetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "webfetch-llm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "WEBFETCH_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webfetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "webfetch-llm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "WEBFETCH_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "webfetch": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "webfetch-llm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "WEBFETCH_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add webfetch --env BRAVE_API_KEY=<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY> --env SERPER_API_KEY=<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY> --env TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY> --env WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=<YOUR_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER> -- uvx webfetch-llm