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MCP server · Docs and web search

Firecrawl MCP server

Lets an assistant scrape, search, map and crawl websites through Firecrawl and get clean Markdown or structured JSON back.

Maintainer
Firecrawl (official)
Licence
MIT
Runs
Remote (URL)
Sign-in
Optional token
Registry version
3.30.1 (updated 2026-10-15)
Last activity
2026-10-13

Overview

What it does

Firecrawl’s MCP server brings its web data service to assistants. The hosted endpoint is the documented starting point: without a key it offers scrape, search and parse at rate-limited levels, and an API key in an Authorization header or an OAuth sign-in at a separate URL opens up the full set of tools. The same server runs locally through npx, and it can point at a self-hosted Firecrawl instance.

Use scrape for a known URL, as Markdown or as JSON that matches a schema you supply. Map discovers a site’s URLs, crawl collects many pages with depth and path limits, and search starts from a query. Interact clicks and types on a page before reading it, an agent tool handles deeper research, monitor tools check pages on a schedule and report changes, and a credit tool shows usage. A search-only endpoint offers a fixed set of nine search tools.

Tools

What the assistant can do

  • Scrape a URL to Markdown or schema-matched JSON
  • Map a site’s URLs and crawl many pages with limits
  • Web search, with optional page scraping in the same call
  • Interact with pages by clicking, typing and navigating
  • Research agent runs and scheduled page monitoring with change alerts
  • Check credit usage

Install

Install Firecrawl MCP server in your app

You need:

  • An MCP client that supports remote HTTP servers
  • A Firecrawl API key for the full tool set (keyless use covers scrape, search and parse)
  • Node.js 22 or newer if you run the npm package locally

Run in your project. --scope local keeps the servers private to you in this project; use user for every project.

Terminal
claude mcp add --scope local --transport http firecrawl https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp
  • firecrawl: if the server needs a sign-in, the app will ask (run /mcp in Claude Code).

Want it alongside other servers? Open Firecrawl MCP Server in the MCP config generator and add the rest; it writes one file per app. The snippets follow the setup in the server’s README, checked on 2026-10-14.

Before you install

  • Scrape, crawl and agent calls use your Firecrawl credits; set crawl limits and path filters to keep jobs bounded.
  • The README says never to put the API key in the server URL or in chat; set it as a header or client secret.
  • Scraped content can contain prompt-injection text, and interact can submit forms on live sites.
  • A remote server sees whatever the assistant sends it. Sign in with the narrowest access the service offers. See how to choose a safe server.

Why it’s listed

Why we list it

A widely used scraping and crawling server with a key-less hosted tier, maintained by Firecrawl with frequent releases.

Related

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