Firecrawl MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio firecrawl-mcp-server -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "firecrawl_api_key",
      "description": "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${input:firecrawl_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl-mcp-server "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

• prompt

  Natural language description of the data you want (required, max 10,000 characters)

• urls

  Optional array of URLs to focus the agent on specific pages

• schema

  Optional JSON schema for structured output

• effort

  Optional. "low", "medium" or "high" reasoning budget for the agent task.

• mode

  Optional. "extract" (default) returns the complete structured result every turn.

• exchange

  Optional. Alexandria provider settings for this turn, forwarded as-is to POST /v2/agent:

• enabled

  , toolkits (up to 5 provider slugs), maxCalls (1 to 30), requireApproval (paid calls end the turn with a…

• approve

  { approvalId, callIds?, always? } answers yes to the pendingApproval the previous turn ended on.

• decline

  { approvalId } answers no. A declined terms offer keeps those providers out of the rest of the thread.

• processing

  Agent is still researching - check back later

• completed

  Research finished - response includes the extracted data

• failed

  An error occurred

• firecrawl_research_search_papers

  search paper metadata and abstracts with a natural-language query, with optional author, category, and date filters.

• firecrawl_research_inspect_paper

  retrieve canonical metadata for one paper ID (arXiv, PMC, PMID, or DOI).

• firecrawl_research_related_papers

  expand from one or more anchor papers through the citation graph.

• firecrawl_research_read_paper

  read full-text passages from a specific paper.

• firecrawl_monitor_list

  list monitors.

• firecrawl_monitor_get

  get one monitor.

• firecrawl_monitor_update

  update fields including goal, judgeEnabled, webhook, and notification.

• firecrawl_monitor_run

  trigger a check now.

• firecrawl_monitor_delete

  delete a monitor (destructive; only call when the user intends to remove it).

• firecrawl_monitor_checks

  list checks, optionally filtered by status.

• firecrawl_monitor_check

  get page-level results, including diff, snapshot, judgment.meaningful, and judgment.meaningfulChanges.

• query

  the developer question or search phrase.

• skills

  set to "only" to search agent-skill files alone.

• firecrawl_credit_usage

  defaults to { "view": "current" } and returns remainingCredits, planCredits, billingPeriodStart, and billingPeriodEnd.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.

• batch-processing
• claude
• content-extraction
• data-collection
• firecrawl
• firecrawl-ai
• llm-tools
• mcp-server
• model-context-protocol
• search-api