📚 DocsFetcher MCP Server

An MCP server that fetches package documentation from multiple language ecosystems for LLMs like Claude without requiring API keys.

✨ Features

• 🌐 Supports multiple programming languages (JavaScript, Python, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Go, Swift)
• 📦 Fetches documentation for packages by name or URL
• 🔍 Crawls documentation sites to extract comprehensive information
• 📄 Extracts README, API docs, code examples, and repository info
• 🧠 Provides structured data for LLM summarization
• 💬 Includes specialized prompts for documentation analysis
• 🔑 No API key required - works natively with Claude Desktop and Cursor IDE

🚀 Installation

Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer
2. Click “Edit Config” and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docsFetcher": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@smithery/cli@latest",
        "run",
        "@cdugo/mcp-get-docs",
        "--config",
        "'{}'"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor IDE Configuration

1. Open Cursor IDE → Settings → MCP -> Add New MCP Servier
2. Add:

    Name: docsFetcher
    Command: npx -y @smithery/cli@latest run @cdugo/mcp-get-docs --config "{}"

Prerequisites

• 📋 Node.js 18 or later

🏃‍♂️ Running Locally

git clone https://github.com/cdugo/package-documentation-mcp
cd package-documentation-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Once installed, you can run the server locally with:

# From the project root directory
npm start

For development with auto-restart on file changes:

npm run dev

The server will start on the default port (usually 3000). You should see output like:

🚀 DocsFetcher MCP Server running!
📋 Ready to fetch documentation

To specify a custom port:

PORT=8080 npm start

🛠️ Available Tools

1. fetch-url-docs: 🔗 Fetch docs from a specific URL
2. fetch-package-docs: 📦 Fetch docs for a package with optional language specification
3. fetch-library-docs: 🧠 Smart tool that works with either package name or URL
4. fetch-multilingual-docs: 🌍 Fetch docs for a package across multiple language ecosystems

📝 Available Prompts

1. summarize-library-docs: 📚 Create a comprehensive library summary
2. explain-dependency-error: 🐛 Generate dependency error explanations

💡 Example Queries

Basic Library Information