How to Use the HTML to Text Extractor MCP in VS Code Copilot

Q: What happens to nested tables when I run this tool in VS Code Copilot?

The extracttext tool flattens nested HTML tables into readable, line-by-line plain text. It discards the table and cell tags while preserving the raw text content so VS Code Copilot can read it sequentially.

Strip raw HTML inside VS Code Copilot so your development team gets clean plain text instead of bloated DOM code.

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Feed clean plain text directly into VS Code Copilot

The `extract_text` tool strips out CSS, script tags, and HTML boilerplate so VS Code Copilot can generate code based on actual page content. Your team's agent reads clean text variables instead of wasting context on thousands of lines of unreadable markup. This MCP tool keeps your editor chat prompt fast and accurate. It takes the output of raw scraping files in your project directory and formats them for immediate use in your codebase.

Save context tokens in VS Code Copilot Agent mode

The `extract_text` tool acts as an inline filter that drops token usage by 95% when VS Code Copilot processes raw webpages. Instead of feeding raw HTML into your active chat window, this MCP tool extracts only the readable text. It runs as a background process configured in your workspace settings file. VS Code Copilot calls the tool automatically to process messy HTML strings before they hit the LLM context.

Clean up web scraper outputs in your team repository

The `extract_text` tool handles the heavy lifting of parsing complex DOM structures directly inside your VS Code Copilot workspace. This MCP Server isolates the core text from header menus, sidebars, and footer links so your editor agent stays focused on the primary content. This setup keeps your coding loops fast because the tool runs inside an ephemeral sandbox. You get clean, parsed text injected directly into your active files without writing custom parsing scripts.

Setup guide

Set up HTML to Text Extractor MCP in VS Code Copilot

Prerequisites

VS Code 1.99 or later with GitHub Copilot extension
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) and run "MCP: Add Server". Select HTTP (Streamable) as the server type. VS Code will create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace.
2

Add the HTML to Text Extractor MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into your .vscode/mcp.json. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Switch to Agent mode

Open Copilot Chat (Cmd+Shift+I / Ctrl+Shift+I) and switch to Agent mode using the dropdown. MCP tools are only available in Agent mode — they do not appear in Edit or Ask modes.
4

Verify the connection

In the Copilot Chat input, type # to list available tools. You should see the HTML to Text Extractor tools listed. Try asking: "List my recent HTML to Text Extractor transactions" and Copilot will invoke them automatically.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "html-to-text-extractor-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about HTML to Text Extractor MCP in VS Code Copilot

You create a local .vscode/mcp.json file in your project root and add the HTML to Text Extractor under the mcpServers key. Once configured, VS Code Copilot can call the `extract_text` tool directly from the chat panel.

Yes, this MCP Server runs locally on your machine via stdio transport, allowing VS Code Copilot to execute the `extract_text` tool entirely offline. It parses your local HTML files without sending raw markup to external servers.

It does. When you activate Agent mode, VS Code Copilot can use the HTML to Text Extractor to clean raw webpage data before generating or modifying code based on that content.

The `extract_text` tool flattens nested HTML tables into readable, line-by-line plain text. It discards the table and cell tags while preserving the raw text content so VS Code Copilot can read it sequentially.

Your raw markup is parsed within a secure, short-lived V8 environment. The extracted text is returned directly to your editor without any local caching or cloud storage, meeting strict enterprise security policies.

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