A tool for retrieving the raw HTML source of a web page from a URL. It first uses httpx, a Python method for making web requests, and can retry through Zyte API if the site blocks the request.

Use it when you need to fetch HTML from one or more URLs for scraping or analysis.

It provides the original page markup needed for later parsing or content extraction, including when a normal request is blocked.

fetcher — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by zytelabs

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 zytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills --skill fetcher

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills/fetcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills/fetcher)

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 220 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00024	$0.00220
Opus 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00088
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00044
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00022

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b9d28e2e706d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fetcher 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (fetcher.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

fetcher/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Fetcher

Fetch the raw HTML of a URL and return it for further processing.

When to use

Use this skill when the user provides one or more URLs and asks you to fetch, retrieve, scrape, or get the HTML or page content.

Instructions

Run fetcher.py with the URL as an argument:
```
python fetcher.py <url>
```
If the script returns a successful HTML response, return the HTML to the conversation for use in the next step.
If the script returns a BLOCKED status, re-run with the --zyte flag:
```
python fetcher.py <url> --zyte
```
Inform the user if a URL could not be fetched after both attempts.

Notes

For multiple URLs, run the script once per URL
Pass the raw HTML output into the Parser skill for extraction

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A b9d28e2e706d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fetcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository zytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 220 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

Browser automation Research

fetcher next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
fetcherzytelabs/claude-webscraping-skills	Skill	5	6mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	24	Claude Code, Codex
interactive-loginyc-software/qm	Skill	16k	today	MIT	A	46	Claude Code, Codex
pinchtab-mcppinchtab/pinchtab	Skill	11k	10d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code, Codex
azure-messaging-webpubsub-javamicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	43	Claude Code
cua-driverdavidondrej/skills	Skill	4.3k	yesterday	MIT	A	68	Claude Code, Codex
open-design-browsercompozy/compozy	Skill	2.9k	today	MIT	A	56	Claude Code, Codex
southwestborski/travel-hacking-toolkit	Skill	906	yesterday	MIT	A	40	Claude Code