Firecrawl MCP Server

Overview

Firecrawl MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol server that brings web search, web scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search capabilities to your AI assistant. It exposes Firecrawl's functionality as tools that Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP clients can invoke directly.

The server runs locally via the npm package firecrawl-mcp, communicating over stdio on your machine. Installation is a single command: npx -y firecrawl-mcp. It requires an API key for authentication. The latest release is v3.24.0, published under the MIT license with source code available at firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server on GitHub, where the project has accumulated 7357 stars.

Firecrawl MCP Server sits in the Web Scraping category on mcp.site and integrates with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP clients. If you maintain this server, you are invited to claim this listing to verify ownership and keep the information current.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl_mcp_server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}