Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl MCP Server is an MCP server that brings Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents, to MCP-compatible clients: search, scrape, and interact with the live web and get back clean Markdown or structured data. It has 7,686 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y firecrawl-mcp.
github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server (opens in a new tab)
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- Needs API key
- Web & browsing
- MIT
- Maintained
Install Firecrawl MCP Server
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"firecrawl-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio firecrawl-mcp-server -- npx -y firecrawl-mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"firecrawl-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"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 Code (remote)
claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl-mcp-server "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"The same server is also hosted as a remote MCP endpoint, so nothing runs on your machine.
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).
Environment variables
Variables the server reads at startup.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
FIRECRAWL_API_KEYsecret | No | Your API key for Firecrawl |
Tools (30)
Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.
promptNatural language description of the data you want (required, max 10,000 characters)
urlsOptional array of URLs to focus the agent on specific pages
schemaOptional JSON schema for structured output
effortOptional. "low", "medium" or "high" reasoning budget for the agent task.
modeOptional. "extract" (default) returns the complete structured result every turn.
exchangeOptional. Alexandria provider settings for this turn, forwarded as-is to POST /v2/agent:
enabledtoolkits (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.
processingAgent is still researching - check back later
completedResearch finished - response includes the extracted data
failedAn error occurred
firecrawl_research_search_paperssearch paper metadata and abstracts with a natural-language query, with optional author, category, and date filters.
firecrawl_research_inspect_paperretrieve canonical metadata for one paper ID (arXiv, PMC, PMID, or DOI).
firecrawl_research_related_papersexpand from one or more anchor papers through the citation graph.
firecrawl_research_read_paperread full-text passages from a specific paper.
firecrawl_monitor_listlist monitors.
firecrawl_monitor_getget one monitor.
firecrawl_monitor_updateupdate fields including goal, judgeEnabled, webhook, and notification.
firecrawl_monitor_runtrigger a check now.
firecrawl_monitor_deletedelete a monitor (destructive; only call when the user intends to remove it).
firecrawl_monitor_checkslist checks, optionally filtered by status.
firecrawl_monitor_checkget page-level results, including diff, snapshot, judgment.meaningful, and judgment.meaningfulChanges.
querythe developer question or search phrase.
skillsset to "only" to search agent-skill files alone.
jurisdictionkeep only pages of one jurisdiction: "us" for federal, or "us-" plus a two-letter state or territory code, such as…
courtkeep only pages labeled for one court, by CourtListener court id, such as "scotus", "ca9" or "nysd".
citeskeep only pages that cite one law or case, as a printed citation such as "42 U.S.C. § 1983" or "5 U.S.
domainkeep only pages from one site, such as "irs.gov".
firecrawl_credit_usagedefaults to { "view": "current" } and returns remainingCredits, planCredits, billingPeriodStart, and billingPeriodEnd.
About Firecrawl MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents, to MCP-compatible clients: search, scrape, and interact with the live web and get back clean Markdown or structured data.
- batch-processing
- claude
- content-extraction
- data-collection
- firecrawl
- firecrawl-ai
- llm-tools
- mcp-server
- model-context-protocol
- search-api
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How do I install the Firecrawl MCP Server MCP server?
Add the command npx -y firecrawl-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.
Is Firecrawl MCP Server free?
The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.
Is Firecrawl MCP Server actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Oct 23, 2026. The latest release is v3.2.1, published Sep 26, 2025. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.