Fetchium as an MCP server for AI clients
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor call external tools without writing any integration code. Fetchium ships a JSON-RPC 2.0 stdio MCP server with 12 tools spanning search, fetch, estimate, research, YouTube, and social workflows.
12 MCP Tools
Fetchium exposes 12 tool definitions in the current MCP server. A representative subset is shown below.
fetchium_searchSearch the web via 17 backends. Returns ranked results with content snippets.
query: stringmax_results?: numberbackends?: string[]fetchium_fetchFetch and extract clean content from a URL using the CEP pipeline.
url: stringquery?: stringtoken_budget?: numberfetchium_estimateEstimate token and processing costs before a request.
query?: stringurl?: stringtoken_budget?: numberfetchium_researchRun a full multi-agent research task and return a structured report with citations.
query: stringdepth?: 'standard' | 'deep'max_sources?: numberfetchium_youtube_searchSearch YouTube content and return structured video results.
query: stringmax_results?: numberfetchium_youtube_analyzeAnalyze a YouTube video, transcript, or channel context.
url?: stringvideo_id?: stringfetchium_social_researchRun cross-platform social research workflows.
query: stringmax_results?: numberSetup: Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetchium": {
"command": "fetchium",
"args": ["mcp"],
"env": {
"FETCHIUM_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}Install the CLI: npm install -g fetchium or cargo install fetchium