firecrawl-mcp-server
firecrawl-mcp-server is the official MCP server of firecrawl, listed under browser & scraping. It reaches firecrawl. It needs FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to authenticate. Its repository has 7,698 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-27.
🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
Install
Read from firecrawl-mcp-server’s own README, close to verbatim -- not written by us, and not guessed.
env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp
What it reaches, and what it needs
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the server’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
Official Firecrawl MCP server, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, and interact with the web, plus parse, crawl, map, Agent and Monitor, from any MCP client.
firecrawl-mcp-server compared with similar servers
| Server | Reaches | Needs | Stars | Last update | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-mcp-server (this page) | firecrawl | FIRECRAWL_API_KEY | 7,698 | 2026-10-27 | MIT |
| DeepResearchMCP | firecrawl, openai(1 shared) | FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY | 27 | 2025-03-04 | — |
| mcp-chrome | chrome | None listed | 12,501 | 2026-01-06 | MIT |
| webclaw | webclaw | WEBCLAW_API_KEY | 2,386 | 2026-10-21 | AGPL-3.0 |
| fetcher-mcp | playwright | None listed | 1,088 | 2026-01-14 | MIT |
| puppeteer-mcp-server | chrome, puppeteer | None listed | 486 | 2025-03-14 | MIT |
Ranked by services in common with firecrawl-mcp-server, then by stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about firecrawl-mcp-server
- What does firecrawl-mcp-server do?
- 🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
- How do I install firecrawl-mcp-server?
- Its own README gives this command: env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp. Run it where your MCP client can launch the server, and check the README for any settings it asks for.
- What does firecrawl-mcp-server connect to, and what does it need?
- It reaches firecrawl. The credentials we found in its source are FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
- Which AI clients can use firecrawl-mcp-server?
- Its own description mentions Cursor. That is a mention in its description, not a test we ran.
- Is firecrawl-mcp-server official and is it maintained?
- It is named as the official server of firecrawl. Its repository has 7,698 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-27.
- What licence does firecrawl-mcp-server use?
- The repository declares the MIT licence.
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