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Firecrawl MCP

Firecrawl's official MCP server for searching, scraping and crawling websites into clean text for an agent.

MCP server★ 7.7k starsMITResearchMarketingSales

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Key facts

Type
MCP server
Jobs it fits
Research competitors; Pull data from websites
Fields
Research, Marketing, Sales
Works with
Any MCP client, Claude Code, Cursor
GitHub
firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server
Licence
MIT
Stars
7,661 as of October 21, 2026
Last updated
October 21, 2026 (last push to GitHub)
Author
@firecrawl
Submitted by
@aiteamguide
Added to the Hub
October 21, 2026

Install / Use it

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Cursor

Add to Cursor

Replace the placeholder values (API keys, tokens) with your own after adding it.

Or paste into ~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

Claude Code

Run in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport stdio firecrawl-mcp --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Replace the placeholder values (API keys, tokens) with your own after adding it.

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config), then restart Claude

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

Replace the placeholder values (API keys, tokens) with your own after adding it.

VS Code

Add to VS Code

Replace the placeholder values (API keys, tokens) with your own after adding it.

Or from the command line

code --add-mcp '{"name":"firecrawl-mcp","type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","firecrawl-mcp"],"env":{"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY":"YOUR-API-KEY"}}'

Codex

Run in your terminal

codex mcp add firecrawl-mcp --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Replace the placeholder values (API keys, tokens) with your own after adding it.

Safety: Runs code from a third-party repo. Review the source and the permissions before installing.

Commands and configs are taken from the project's README and re-wrapped in each app's documented format. If they differ, the README wins.

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