Firecrawl MCP
AI-powered web scraping and crawling MCP
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ActiveHow to Install Firecrawl MCP
$npx firecrawl-mcpRequires Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or another MCP-compatible client.
Setup by client
Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"firecrawl-mcp"
]
}
}
}Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"firecrawl-mcp"
]
}
}
}VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)
{
"servers": {
"firecrawl-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"firecrawl-mcp"
]
}
}
}Claude Code (terminal)
claude mcp add firecrawl-mcp -- npx firecrawl-mcpAdd any API keys or environment variables the server's README lists.
About Firecrawl MCP
Firecrawl's MCP server enables AI agents to scrape any website and convert it to clean LLM-ready markdown. Handles JavaScript-rendered pages, PDFs, and entire site crawls. Ideal for competitive research, content extraction, and RAG pipelines. If you are deciding whether to build a retrieval index or give the agent live tools, read MCP or RAG.
Firecrawl MCP is a APIs & Data MCP server designed for engineers and ops teams. It enables connecting AI assistants to third-party APIs and data feeds by wrapping HTTP endpoints with auth and schema as MCP tools. Key capabilities include auth helpers for common providers, pagination and rate-limit handling, endpoint allow-lists, and structured tool calls that work cleanly inside an LLM context. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Mixpanel, Stripe, and most REST/GraphQL APIs, and is best suited for engineers and ops teams who need internal admin apis.
Key Features
- scraping
- crawling
- web-extraction
- rag
- markdown
Pricing
Freemium: from Free (250 credits/month free)
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Fills the long tail when no purpose-built server exists
- Reuses your existing API surface
- Composable with other MCP servers
Cons
- Quality depends on upstream API design
- Rate limits and quotas need tracking
- Auth refresh logic can be fiddly
Best For
- Internal admin APIs
- CRM and analytics queries
- Glue between specialised MCP servers
- Replacing one-off webhook scripts
Our Take on Firecrawl MCP
The go-to MCP for structured web data extraction: handles JS rendering competitors can't.