Distill MCP server

Give your AI agent clean Markdown from any web page: the main content only, without navigation, ads or scripts. Distill honours robots.txt and AI opt-outs.

The server is open source (MIT). It calls the Distill API, which is paid, with a free plan.

• You use your own key, from RapidAPI or api.market.
• Every tool call is one request on your plan.
• The free Basic plan has 15 requests a month, with a hard limit, so it never runs up a bill.

1. Get a key

2. Add the server to your MCP client

The server runs locally over stdio with uv. Put your key in its environment.

JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and most clients):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "distill": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "bytestay-distill-mcp", "distill-mcp"],
      "env": { "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-rapidapi-key" }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add distill --env RAPIDAPI_KEY=your-rapidapi-key -- uvx --from bytestay-distill-mcp distill-mcp

Environment

Up to 0.2.7 the setting was HFL_MARKETPLACE. The old name still works, with a one-line notice on stderr.

Without a key the server still starts. The first tool call then explains where to get one.

Also listed on Glama:

3. Tools

When a site refuses (robots.txt, a noai directive, bot protection), status says so and a note asks the agent to respect it. Don't fetch the page another way: the terms forbid it.

status is ok on success. Other values (robots_txt, opted_out, blocked, not_html, http_error, unreachable) explain why there is no content.

Every tool returns the API's JSON response.

• When the marketplace rep

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