getText

MCP tool from Chrome MCP by lxe

Get text content of an element using a CSS selector.

How to use it

getText is exposed by the Chrome MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the getText tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Chrome MCP

$npm install -g bun

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Other tools in Chrome MCP (9)

click

Click at specific coordinates.

clickElement

Click on an element by its index in the page info.

getPageInfo

Get semantic information about the page including interactive elements and text nodes.

getPageState

Get current page state including URL, title, scroll position, and viewport size.

navigate

Navigate to a specific URL.

selector

(string): Element index (e.g., "0" for the first element)

text

(string): Text to type

type

Type text at the current focus.

url

(string): The URL to navigate to