Read Website Fast
๐ ๐ - Fast, token-efficient web content extraction for AI agents - converts websites to clean Markdown while preserving links. Features Mozilla Readability, smart caching, polite crawling with robots.txt support, and concurrent fetching.
What is Read Website Fast?
Read Website Fast is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to ๐ ๐ - fast, token-efficient web content extraction for ai agents - converts websites to clean markdown while preserving links. features mozilla readability, smart caching, polite crawling with robot...
๐ ๐ - Fast, token-efficient web content extraction for AI agents - converts websites to clean Markdown while preserving links. Features Mozilla Readability, smart caching, polite crawling with robots.txt support, and concurrent fetching.
This server falls under the Search & Data Extraction category on MCPgee, the world's largest MCP server directory with 33,000+ servers.
Features
- ๐ ๐ - Fast, token-efficient web content extraction for AI ag
Use Cases
Maintainer
Works with
Installation
NPM
npx -y @just-every/mcp-read-website-fastManual Installation
npx -y @just-every/mcp-read-website-fastConfiguration
Configuration Details
claude_desktop_config.json
Performance
Response Metrics
Resource Usage
How to Set Up and Use Read Website Fast
Read Website Fast is a token-efficient MCP server that fetches web pages and converts them to clean Markdown for AI assistants, using Mozilla Readability to strip navigation, ads, and boilerplate before delivering only the article content. It supports concurrent multi-page crawling with configurable depth, respects robots.txt by default, and uses a 15-minute smart cache to avoid redundant fetches within a session. This makes it significantly more efficient than naive HTML-to-text conversion, reducing the token cost of web research tasks in Claude, Cursor, and similar tools.
Prerequisites
- Node.js 18 or later installed (required to run via npx)
- An MCP-compatible client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code CLI, Cursor, VS Code, or JetBrains IDEs
- Internet access from the machine running the MCP server
Install via Claude Code CLI (recommended)
Add the server to your user-level Claude Code config with a single command. This installs it globally for all projects.
claude mcp add read-website-fast -s user -- npx -y @just-every/mcp-read-website-fastOr install via VS Code
Add to VS Code's MCP server list using the code CLI command.
code --add-mcp '{"name":"read-website-fast","command":"npx","args":["-y","@just-every/mcp-read-website-fast"]}'Or add manually to your client config
For Claude Desktop or any other MCP client, add the server block to your configuration file. No environment variables are required.
{
"mcpServers": {
"read-website-fast": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@just-every/mcp-read-website-fast"]
}
}
}Restart your MCP client
Restart Claude Desktop or your client to load the new server. The read_website tool will appear in the available tool list.
Test with a single page fetch
Ask your AI assistant to fetch a page. The server will return clean Markdown with links preserved, stripping all page chrome and ads.
Read Website Fast Examples
Client configuration
Full claude_desktop_config.json entry for read-website-fast. No API keys or environment variables are needed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"read-website-fast": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@just-every/mcp-read-website-fast"]
}
}
}Prompts to try
Natural-language prompts for web content extraction through an AI assistant connected to read-website-fast.
- "Read https://example.com/article and summarize the main points"
- "Fetch https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html and explain how asyncio.gather works"
- "Read https://news.ycombinator.com and list the top 10 story titles with their links"
- "Crawl https://mysite.com/blog up to 5 pages deep and find all articles mentioning 'machine learning'"
- "Check the cache status โ how many pages are currently cached?"
- "Clear the cache and re-fetch https://example.com/pricing"Troubleshooting Read Website Fast
Fetched page returns empty or minimal content
Some pages require JavaScript rendering to display content (e.g., React/Next.js SPAs). read-website-fast uses static HTTP fetching without a headless browser, so JS-rendered content may not appear. Try fetching the page's RSS feed or a cached version (e.g., Google cache) instead.
robots.txt blocks the fetch
By default the server respects robots.txt. If you own the site and want to bypass this for internal tools, pass the --no-robots flag in the args array in your config, or ask the assistant to use the all-origins mode.
First npx run is slow (30+ seconds)
The first invocation downloads the @just-every/mcp-read-website-fast package from npm. Subsequent starts use the npx cache and are much faster. To eliminate startup latency entirely, install globally: `npm install -g @just-every/mcp-read-website-fast` and change the command to `mcp-read-website-fast`.
Frequently Asked Questions about Read Website Fast
What is Read Website Fast?
Read Website Fast is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that ๐ ๐ - fast, token-efficient web content extraction for ai agents - converts websites to clean markdown while preserving links. features mozilla readability, smart caching, polite crawling with robots.txt support, and concurrent fetching. It connects AI assistants to external tools and data sources through a standardized interface.
How do I install Read Website Fast?
Install via npm with the command: npx -y @just-every/mcp-read-website-fast. Then add the server configuration to your AI client's JSON config file (e.g., claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json).
Which AI clients work with Read Website Fast?
Read Website Fast works with all major MCP-compatible AI clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Windsurf, and Cline.
Is Read Website Fast free to use?
Yes, Read Website Fast is open source and available under the MIT License license. You can use it freely in both personal and commercial projects.
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