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About Z.AI Web Reader MCP

Z.AI hosted MCP service for retrieving webpage content and structured page information such as title, main text, metadata, and links.

What you can use it for

  • Fetch and parse public webpages, documentation, repositories, and technical articles.
  • Extract page title, body content, metadata, and links for research and knowledge-base workflows.
Connection and setup
Hosting
hosted
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Endpoint
https://api.z.ai/api/mcp/web_reader/mcp
Authentication
Bearer API key from a Z.AI GLM Coding Plan account.

Requirements

  • Bearer API key from a Z.AI GLM Coding Plan account.

Setup steps

  1. Connect to https://api.z.ai/api/mcp/web_reader/mcp using the documented authentication method.
  2. Bearer API key from a Z.AI GLM Coding Plan account.
Tools 1

The official Z.AI reference lists the single tool webReader. The remote server is described for GLM Coding Plan users.

  • webReader

    Fetch a URL and return page title, main text, metadata, and links.

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Limitations and notes
  • Requires a valid Z.AI API key and available plan balance; anti-scraping or inaccessible pages may fail.
Original sources
  • official tool reference

    The current Z.AI reference names one tool, webReader, which returns a webpage title, main content, metadata and links. Z.AI says the remote service is for GLM Coding Plan users.

  • official documentation or source

    The current Z.AI reference names one tool, webReader, which returns a webpage title, main content, metadata and links. Z.AI says the remote service is for GLM Coding Plan users.

Documentation checked 2026-10-28T12:50:00.000Z. Connection has not been runtime tested.

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