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Faceabot Web page reader

by faceabot.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v1.0.0 · published by com.faceabot

Read any public web page as clean text, and files of public GitHub repositories. Free, no key.

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2 tools: 2 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http web-reader https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/reader

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

2 tools

Only reads 2Claude Code: allow
  • read_github_fileReturns a file from a public GitHub repository (default: its README).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "read_github_file" says "read": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns a file from a public GitHub repository (default: its README). Use when: you need a project's README, documentation or source file. Example: {"repo":"cloudflare/workers-sdk","path":"README.md"}

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
  • read_web_pageReads a public web page and returns its title and main text as clean plain text (menus, scripts and ads removed), in pages of up to 50,000 characters.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "read_web_page" says "read": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Reads a public web page and returns its title and main text as clean plain text (menus, scripts and ads removed), in pages of up to 50,000 characters. Use when: you need the content of an article, a documentation page, a blog post or any public page. Not for: pages that need a login; PDFs (use the Faceabot PDF tool). Example: {"url":"https://example.com"}

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.0.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http web-reader https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/reader

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__web-reader__read_web_page",
      "mcp__web-reader__read_github_file"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as web-reader. Review it before you use it.