#7 · of 445 · by weekly downloadsMCP server
Firecrawl MCP
Turns web pages and whole sites into markdown an agent can read.
Rank
#7
of 445 · by weekly downloads
Weekly downloads
191K
npm + PyPI, last 7 days
Add it to your client
OfficialInstall
npx -y firecrawl-mcp
mcpServers
{
"mcpServers": {
"firecrawl-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"firecrawl-mcp"
]
}
}
}- Transport
- both
- Runtime
- Node
- Auth
- Required
- License
- MIT
Tools
firecrawl_scrapefirecrawl_searchfirecrawl_mapfirecrawl_crawlfirecrawl_parsefirecrawl_agentfirecrawl_interact
Firecrawl hands web pages to an agent as clean markdown, or as JSON that matches a schema you pass, instead of raw HTML. The agent can scrape a known URL, list a site's URLs, crawl a section of a site, or run a web search and fetch the result pages in the same call.
Setup
- Hosted:
https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp. Without a key, onlyfirecrawl_scrape,firecrawl_searchandfirecrawl_parsework, with rate limits. For the full tool set, sendAuthorization: Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>from the client's header settings or sign in throughhttps://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth. - Local:
env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp.FIRECRAWL_API_URLpoints it at a self-hosted Firecrawl, where the key is optional.
What it exposes
firecrawl_scrape,firecrawl_map, andfirecrawl_crawl, which starts a job and polls until it finishesfirecrawl_search; addscrapeOptionsto get page content with the resultsfirecrawl_interactfor pages that need a click or typing before they can be readfirecrawl_agentfor multi-site research, checked withfirecrawl_agent_statusfirecrawl_parsefor PDFs, Word files and spreadsheets
Limits
- Crawl results can overflow the model's context; bound them with
limitandmaxDiscoveryDepth. - Calls use Firecrawl credits;
firecrawl_credit_usageshows what is left.
Suited to research and data-collection tasks that span many pages or several sites.
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