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firecrawl-mcp-server

Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.

About firecrawl-mcp-server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.

On the keyless free tier, scrape, search, and interact work without an API key (rate-limited). Other tools such as crawl, map, agent, and extract still need a key.

Prefer an API key or OAuth whenever the human can sign up. It unlocks the full tool set and higher limits. With a key, use:

From the project's README

firecrawl-mcp-server is an open-source project written primarily in JavaScript, with 6.8k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in July 2026.

Install

npm install -g firecrawl-mcp
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