diff --git a/src/goose/synopsis/toolkit.py b/src/goose/synopsis/toolkit.py
index 2b694d8e..8424987c 100644
--- a/src/goose/synopsis/toolkit.py
+++ b/src/goose/synopsis/toolkit.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 # janky global state for now, think about it
+import re
 import subprocess
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
+import tempfile
 from typing import Dict
 
 from exchange import Message
+import httpx
 from goose.synopsis.system import system
 from goose.toolkit.base import Toolkit, tool
 from goose.toolkit.utils import RULEPREFIX, RULESTYLE, get_language
@@ -242,3 +245,36 @@ class SynopsisDeveloper(Toolkit):
         self.logshell(f"cd {path}")
         system.cwd = str(patho)
         return path
+
+    @tool
+    def fetch_web_content(self, url: str) -> str:
+        """
+        Fetch content from a URL using httpx.
+
+        Args:
+            url (str): url of the site to visit.
+        Returns:
+            (dict): A dictionary with two keys:
+                - 'html_file_path' (str): Path to a html file which has the content of the page. It will be very large so use rg to search it or head in chunks. Will contain meta data and links and markup.
+                - 'text_file_path' (str): Path to a plain text file which has the some of the content of the page. It will be large so use rg to search it or head in chunks. If content isn't there, try the html variant.
+        """  # noqa
+        friendly_name = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "_", url)[:50]  # Limit length to prevent filenames from being too long
+
+        try:
+            result = httpx.get(url, follow_redirects=True).text
+            with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, mode="w", suffix=f"_{friendly_name}.html") as tmp_file:
+                tmp_file.write(result)
+                tmp_text_file_path = tmp_file.name.replace(".html", ".txt")
+                plain_text = re.sub(
+                    r"<head.*?>.*?</head>|<script.*?>.*?</script>|<style.*?>.*?</style>|<[^>]+>",
+                    "",
+                    result,
+                    flags=re.DOTALL,
+                )  # Remove head, script, and style tags/content, then any other tags
+                with open(tmp_text_file_path, "w") as text_file:
+                    text_file.write(plain_text)
+                return {"html_file_path": tmp_file.name, "text_file_path": tmp_text_file_path}
+        except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc:
+            self.notifier.log(f"Failed fetching with HTTP error: {exc.response.status_code}")
+        except Exception as exc:
+            self.notifier.log(f"Failed fetching with error: {str(exc)}")
diff --git a/tests/synopsis/test_toolkit.py b/tests/synopsis/test_toolkit.py
index 9d213782..f78017cb 100644
--- a/tests/synopsis/test_toolkit.py
+++ b/tests/synopsis/test_toolkit.py
@@ -93,3 +93,23 @@ def test_cancel_process(toolkit, tmpdir):
     # Verify that the process is no longer in the list
     processes = toolkit.list_processes()
     assert process_id not in processes
+
+
+def test_fetch_web_content(toolkit):
+    url = "http://example.com"
+
+    result = toolkit.fetch_web_content(url)
+    assert "html_file_path" in result
+    assert "text_file_path" in result
+
+    html_file_path = result["html_file_path"]
+    text_file_path = result["text_file_path"]
+
+    with open(html_file_path, "r") as html_file:
+        fetched_content = html_file.read()
+
+    assert "Example Domain" in fetched_content
+
+    with open(text_file_path, "r") as html_file:
+        fetched_content = html_file.read()
+    assert "Example Domain" in fetched_content