How to Use the HTML to Text Extractor MCP in Windsurf

Q: How does the HTML to Text Extractor work with Windsurf Cascade?

Cascade automatically chains extracttext after a web scraping tool. It sees the HTML output, knows it needs cleaning, and inserts this tool before the next step. You don't have to tell it to.

Stop Windsurf's Cascade agent from choking on raw HTML. Get clean text for smarter, cheaper AI chains.

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Create your Vinkius account to connect HTML to Text Extractor to Windsurf and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.

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Clean Up Web Scrapes

The `extract_text` tool takes messy HTML and gives you back just the text. It's for when your agent scrapes a site and you need the content, not the code. Windsurf's Cascade can use this as the first step in a chain. It scrapes a URL, runs `extract_text` to clean the junk, then passes that clean text to the next tool for summarizing or analysis. No more wasted tokens on CSS.

Feed Your Agent Clean Data

This MCP Server exposes one tool, `extract_text`, that strips out everything but readable content from an HTML string. You give it a full webpage source, you get back just the words. This is critical for building reliable agent workflows in Windsurf. By cleaning the HTML first, you make sure the LLM only sees relevant information. This reduces hallucinations and keeps your token costs way down.

One-Click Install for Windsurf

Get this running in seconds. Find the HTML to Text Extractor in Windsurf's built-in MCP Marketplace and click install. Your agent discovers the tool instantly. You can also add it manually. Edit your `mcp_config.json` or use the settings UI. Either way, Cascade will see the `extract_text` tool in the MCP panel and can start using it in its plans right away.

Setup guide

Set up HTML to Text Extractor MCP in Windsurf

Prerequisites

Windsurf IDE installed (macOS, Windows, or Linux)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Click the Cascade assistant icon in the sidebar, then click the hammer icon (🔨) at the top of the panel. Select "Configure" to open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
2

Add the HTML to Text Extractor MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Refresh MCPs

Go back to the hammer icon (🔨) in Cascade and click "Refresh". Windsurf will detect the new server. No full restart is needed — the connection is hot-reloaded.
4

Verify in Cascade

Start a new Cascade conversation and ask something like "Show my HTML to Text Extractor payment history." If connected, Cascade will call the HTML to Text Extractor tools directly. You will see a green dot next to the server name in the MCP panel.

mcp_config.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 Windsurf

Cascade automatically chains `extract_text` after a web scraping tool. It sees the HTML output, knows it needs cleaning, and inserts this tool before the next step. You don't have to tell it to.

Yes. If you have a tool that reads a local file into a string, you can pipe that HTML string directly to `extract_text`. Cascade can plan this sequence for you.

It saves a ton of money on tokens. Raw HTML is mostly code, not content. This tool strips up to 95% of the junk, so you're only paying for the LLM to process the actual text.

No, it's a separate MCP Server you connect to Windsurf. Vinkius hosts it, and you connect your client through the marketplace or by adding the server URL to your config.

The server is ephemeral and stateless. It receives the HTML string, processes it in memory to extract text, and returns the result. The original HTML and extracted text are not logged or stored.

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