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Firecrawl MCP

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Official Firecrawl MCP server for powerful web scraping, crawling, search, and structured data extraction.

0 installsAuthor: Firecrawl
aiSearchWeb ScrapingData ExtractionCrawling

Installation

curl -fsSL https://claudekit.xyz/i/firecrawl | bash

Description

The Firecrawl MCP Server provides powerful web scraping capabilities for AI assistants, including single page scraping, batch operations, site crawling, and structured data extraction.

Installation

NPX

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

Global Installation

npm install -g firecrawl-mcp

Configuration

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

  1. Open Cursor Settings
  2. Go to Features > MCP Servers
  3. Add the configuration above

Available Tools

ToolBest ForReturns
firecrawl_scrapeSingle page contentmarkdown/html
firecrawl_batch_scrapeMultiple known URLsmarkdown/html[]
firecrawl_mapDiscovering URLs on a siteURL[]
firecrawl_crawlMulti-page extractionmarkdown/html[]
firecrawl_searchWeb search for inforesults[]
firecrawl_extractStructured data from pagesJSON

Features

  • Web Scraping - Extract content from any webpage
  • Batch Processing - Scrape multiple URLs efficiently
  • Site Crawling - Discover and crawl entire websites
  • Search - Search the web and extract content
  • Structured Extraction - Extract data using schemas
  • Automatic Retries - Built-in rate limiting and retries

Environment Variables

Required

  • FIRECRAWL_API_KEY - Your Firecrawl API key

Optional

  • FIRECRAWL_API_URL - Custom API endpoint for self-hosted
  • FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS - Max retry attempts (default: 3)
  • FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY - Initial retry delay in ms (default: 1000)

Usage Examples

Scrape the content from https://example.com

Search for the latest AI news and extract the content

Extract product information from these e-commerce URLs

Resources