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Firecrawl MCP Server

by Mendable AI

Advanced LLM-friendly web scraping, crawling, and search.

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About Firecrawl

Firecrawl integrates seamlessly with LLM clients like Cursor and Claude, providing JavaScript rendering, batch processing, URL discovery, web search, automatic retries, credit usage monitoring, and comprehensive logging. Supports both cloud and self-hosted Firecrawl instances.

Tags

web-scrapingcrawlingsearchjavascript-rendering

How to install Firecrawl

Package
firecrawl-mcp (npm)
Transport
Local (stdio), Remote (Streamable HTTP), Remote (SSE)
Hosted endpoint
https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp

Install or run

npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Client configuration

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

Copied from the official README — . Replace placeholder keys with your own credentials.

Client setup documented by the maintainer

ClientSetup steps in README
Claude DesktopYes
Claude CodeNot documented
CursorYes
VS CodeYes
WindsurfYes

“Not documented” means the README has no client-specific steps — most MCP clients can still run a local stdio server from the configuration above.

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