Enables web scraping, content searching, site crawling, and data extraction using the Firecrawl API.
Firecrawl MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Enables web scraping, content searching, site crawling, and data extraction using the Firecrawl API.
You will need one environment variable: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @modelcontextprotocol/mcp-server-firecrawl on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
This sits in the search and retrieval group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by Msparihar; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Firecrawl's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-3": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/mcp-server-firecrawl"],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| FIRECRAWL_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
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Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
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Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.