firecrawl-mcp-server

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 7.5k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Add firecrawl-mcp-server to your MCP client

A hosted server: point your client at its URL and complete its sign-in there. In Claude Desktop or claude.ai, add it under Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector instead.

claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl-mcp-server https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"
    }
  }
}

codex mcp add firecrawl-mcp-server --url https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp

Check the project's README for required accounts, keys and permissions before connecting. Setup guide for each client →