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web-shooter

Registre officiel Recherche et web

Fast, low-token web reader and focused crawler. Returns ranked passages, not whole pages.

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Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

CARGO package web-shooter

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. web-shooter
  2. Why it's better
  3. Tools
  4. Setup
  5. More
  6. License

web-shooter

A fast web reader for AI assistants, served over MCP. It reads web pages and PDFs and returns only the passages that answer the question, not whole pages. It runs locally and keeps nothing.

Why it's better

Live benchmark on 32 questions (web pages, JSON APIs, PDFs), 2026-10-31:

ToolMedian latencyAvg tokens returnedAnswer present
web-shooter793 ms1,08129/32
Firecrawl, cache allowed1,207 ms25,40928/32
Firecrawl, fresh1,548 ms25,02528/32
Jina Reader2,046 ms25,34524/32

Faster, and about 23× fewer tokens, with the same accuracy. Caveats and the held-out check are in docs/guide.md.

Tools

ToolUse it whenReturns
fetch(urls, query?, keywords?, max_tokens?)You have URLs (or local PDF paths)The best passages, grouped by page; whole pages without a query. Pages built by JavaScript are loaded in headless Chrome automatically
links(url, query?, keywords?, max_links?)You want to choose which page to read nextThe page's links, ranked by the query
crawl(url, query, keywords?, max_pages?, max_depth?, other_sites?, max_results?)You have a start page and a goal, not the URLsThe most relevant pages, as URLs with one-line snippets

Setup

1. Install (macOS on Apple Silicon, Linux, Windows):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/heyyviv/web-shooter/releases/latest/download/web-shooter-installer.sh | sh
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/heyyviv/web-shooter/releases/latest/download/web-shooter-installer.ps1 | iex"

Or from source (Rust 1.88+, and the only route on Intel Macs):

cargo install --git https://github.com/heyyviv/web-shooter

2. Register it. In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user web-shooter -- web-shooter

Then run /mcp or start a new session. For Claude Desktop, Cursor and other clients, add a stdio server with the absolute path to the binary:

{ "mcpServers": { "web-shooter": { "command": "/absolute/path/to/web-shooter" } } }

The first query downloads a 30 MB embedding model. Pages built by JavaScript need Chrome installed.

More

docs/guide.md covers usage, configuration, updating, limits and development. docs/how-it-works.md explains the internals.

  • MCP Registry name: mcp-name: io.github.heyyviv/web-shooter

License

Licensed under either of Apache License 2.0 or MIT license, at your option.

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que web-shooter ?

Fast, low-token web reader and focused crawler. Returns ranked passages, not whole pages.

Comment installer web-shooter ?

Suivez les étapes d'installation de sa documentation, affichée sur cette page et dans son dépôt.

Faut-il une clé API pour web-shooter ?

Son entrée au registre n'indique aucune clé ni secret obligatoire. Certaines fonctions peuvent tout de même demander un compte auprès du service auquel il se connecte.

web-shooter est-il open source ?

Oui. Son code est sur GitHub sous licence Apache-2.0.

Qui maintient web-shooter ?

Il est publié par heyyviv. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.