What you can do with Donsetch

4 use cases

• Give a coding agent live web search and fetch

  Register DonSeTch as an MCP server so Claude Code or Cursor can search and read current web pages.

  • Donsetch
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Research
  • Intermediate
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  Using the donsetch MCP server, search the web for <topic> and fetch the top 3 sources. Return a bulleted summary where each point has its source URL, and confirm each fetch returned page text.

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• Read only the needed part of long web pages

  Use DonSeTch's token controls so an agent pulls a table of contents or one section, not the whole page.

  • Donsetch
  • Research
  • Intermediate
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  Using the donsetch MCP server, fetch the table of contents of <URL>, then fetch only the section about <topic>. Return the section text and confirm the response is shorter than the full page.

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• Pull text out of scanned PDF reports

  Let DonSeTch fetch a scanned PDF and run its built-in OCR so the text can be read or searched.

  • Donsetch
  • Research
  • Intermediate
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  Using the donsetch MCP server, fetch the scanned PDF at <URL> and return its full text. Confirm the output contains readable sentences from the first page and state whether OCR ran.

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• Read pages that block simple scrapers

  Use DonSeTch's stealth fetch and browser escalation to read pages that serve bot walls.

  • Donsetch
  • Research
  • Advanced
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  Using the donsetch MCP server, fetch <URL> and return the main article text. Confirm the response is page content rather than a bot challenge, and state which fetch tier succeeded if the output says so.

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How to use Donsetch

1. Check you have what it needs: npm or Homebrew to install the binary; An MCP-capable client such as Claude Code or Cursor, or the standalone CLI; Network access to the sites you want to read.
2. Open dondai44423/donsetch on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run npm install -g donsetch
4. Run donsetch doctor --mcp to print absolute-path registration blocks for your client
5. Paste the printed block into your client's MCP configuration and restart the client
6. Ask the agent to search for a topic and fetch the top sources

These steps come from our top use case, Give a coding agent live web search and fetch, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers and agent builders who want their AI coding or research agent to read live web pages and PDFs without API keys or accounts.
• Why it is hot
• LanguageRust
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Requirements

• npm or Homebrew to install the binary
• An MCP-capable client such as Claude Code or Cursor, or the standalone CLI
• Network access to the sites you want to read
• Optional: a Chromium, Playwright-cached Chromium or Edge build for tier-2 browser escalation

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