firecrawl

Firecrawl MCP Server — AI skill for Claude Code

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

How to install Firecrawl MCP Server

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Firecrawl MCP Server does

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

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README

Firecrawl MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that integrates with [Firecrawl](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl) for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web.

Big thanks to [@vrknetha](https://github.com/vrknetha), [@knacklabs](https://www.knacklabs.ai) for the initial implementation!

Features

  • Search the web and get full page content
  • Scrape any URL into clean, structured data
  • Interact with pages — click, navigate, and operate
  • Deep research with autonomous agent
  • Cloud browser sessions with agent-browser automation
  • Automatic retries and rate limiting
  • Cloud and self-hosted support
  • SSE support

Play around with [our MCP Server on MCP.so's playground](https://mcp.so/playground?server=firecrawl-mcp-server) or on [Klavis AI](https://www.klavis.ai/mcp-servers).

Installation

Running with npx

env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Manual Installation

npm install -g firecrawl-mcp

Running on Cursor

Configuring Cursor 🖥️ Note: Requires Cursor version 0.45.6+ For the most up-to-date configuration instructions, please refer to the official Cursor documentation on configuring MCP servers: [Cursor MCP Server Configuration Guide](https://docs.cursor.com/context/model-context-protocol#configuring-mcp-servers)

To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor **v0.48.6**

  1. Open Cursor Settings
  2. Go to Features > MCP Servers
  3. Click "+ Add new global MCP server"
  4. Enter the following code:
    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "firecrawl-mcp": {
          "command": "npx",
          "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
          "env": {
            "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR-API-KEY"
          }
        }
      }
    }

To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor **v0.45.6**

  1. Open Cur