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agent-fetch Full-content web fetcher for AI agents and content workflows. Standard HTTP tools (curl, wget, or an agent's built-in web fetch) are often served truncated or different responses because servers inspect the client's network fingerprint. agent-fetch uses browser impersonation so servers respond as they would to a real browser, then runs multiple extraction strategies to pull the complete article — every paragraph, heading, and link. Also supports multi-page crawling, persistent cookies, and custom CSS selectors. Runs locally with no API keys or cloud dependencies. Also useful for: NotebookLM can't add a URL as a source — extract the content and paste it as text RAG pipelines need clean markdown from web pages, not HTML soup or truncated summaries LLM conversations where you need the full article in context, not a 3-paragraph summary Built-in agent fet
| Stars | 313 |
| Forks | 29 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 74.6465128638043/100 |
| Open Issues | 1 |
| Last Updated | 2026-03-15 |
| Created | 2026-02-07 |
| Platforms | browser, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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agent-fetch is Full-content web fetcher for AI agents — Chrome TLS fingerprinting, browser impersonation, multi-strategy article extraction, and web scraping.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 313 GitHub stars.
agent-fetch is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as ai-agent-skill, ai-agents, anti-bot-detection.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the agent-fetch GitHub repository at github.com/teng-lin/agent-fetch. The project has 313 stars and 29 forks, indicating an active community.
agent-fetch is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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