fetch

fetch is a skill for Claude Code from pleaseai/claude-code-plugins. It costs 67 tokens per session (506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of tools for retrieving web pages and online media as HTML, JSON, plain text, Markdown, readable articles, or YouTube transcripts. A transcript is the written text of a video's spoken content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch web pages, APIs, articles, raw HTML, plain text, and YouTube transcripts for further processing.
Why use it?
It helps obtain usable web content when a normal page fetch is blocked or when raw page structure or structured data is needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the fetch plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to fetch web pages, APIs, articles, raw HTML, plain text, and YouTube transcripts for further processing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pleaseai/claude-code-plugins/fetch
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add pleaseai/claude-code-plugins --skill fetch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pleaseai/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fetch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for fetch

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 506 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.00506
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00202
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f8a5aa5ef1aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fetch scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/fetch/skills/fetch/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Fetch MCP - Web Content Retrieval

Use fetch MCP tools to retrieve web content in the most appropriate format for the task.

When to Use

  • WebFetch fails with 403, access denied, or other errors
  • Fetching structured data from JSON APIs
  • Converting web pages to clean Markdown for analysis
  • Extracting readable article content without navigation/ads
  • Downloading YouTube video transcripts
  • Getting raw HTML for parsing or inspection

Available Tools

Tool Best For
mcp__fetch__fetch_markdown General web pages — converts to clean Markdown
mcp__fetch__fetch_html Raw HTML when you need to parse structure
mcp__fetch__fetch_txt Plain text extraction, minimal formatting
mcp__fetch__fetch_json JSON REST APIs and data endpoints
mcp__fetch__fetch_readable Articles/blog posts — removes ads and navigation
mcp__fetch__fetch_youtube_transcript YouTube video transcripts by video URL or ID

How to Use

  1. Choose the format matching the content type and task
  2. Call the appropriate tool with the target URL
  3. Process the returned content as needed

Format Selection Guide

  • Documentation, blog posts: fetch_markdown or fetch_readable
  • API endpoints: fetch_json
  • HTML parsing/scraping: fetch_html
  • YouTube videos: fetch_youtube_transcript
  • Plain content extraction: fetch_txt

Fallback from WebFetch

When WebFetch fails, the fetch plugin automatically suggests retrying with these tools. Prefer fetch_markdown as the general-purpose fallback for most URLs.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f8a5aa5ef1aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository pleaseai/claude-code-plugins (16 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 506 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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