webfetch

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add io-github-firish-webfetch -e BRAVE_API_KEY=... -e SERPER_API_KEY=... -e TAVILY_API_KEY=... -e WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=... -- uvx webfetch-llm

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-firish-webfetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "webfetch-llm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "...",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "...",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "...",
        "WEBFETCH_PROVIDER": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

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

Questions

webfetch is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package webfetch-llm.

Run: claude mcp add io-github-firish-webfetch -e BRAVE_API_KEY=... -e SERPER_API_KEY=... -e TAVILY_API_KEY=... -e WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=... -- uvx webfetch-llm

Run: codex mcp add io-github-firish-webfetch --env BRAVE_API_KEY=... --env SERPER_API_KEY=... --env TAVILY_API_KEY=... --env WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=... -- uvx webfetch-llm

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