MCP server
Firecrawl MCP server
Firecrawl's official MCP server lets AI scrape, map, crawl and search the web and get clean, AI-ready content back.
- Official server
- Browser automation
At a glance
- Maintained by
- Firecrawl
- Tools exposed
- 10 listed below
- Reviewed
- September 24, 2026
Why it matters
What it does and why it matters
Firecrawl turns websites into clean content that AI can use. Its official MCP server lets an assistant scrape a page, map a site, crawl it, search the web, parse documents and run an agent that interacts with pages. Results come back as clean markdown or structured data rather than raw HTML.
That makes it a practical tool for building knowledge bases from your own sites, monitoring public pages and gathering research material.
The hosted server now uses a newer version of the endpoint and offers a limited free tier without a key, with a separate sign-in option. Usage beyond that draws on account credits, and the interact tool can take actions on pages. We keep crawls to known sites, set page limits and check credit usage after each job.
Use cases
Best business use cases
Knowledge base from your site
Site maps
Research
Document parsing
Tools
Available tools
Tool names as published by the maintainer at review time. Versions change, so check the repository for the current list.
Read and write: Mostly read: fetches and extracts web content; interact can take page actions; uses account credits.
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firecrawl_scrapeGet a known URL's content as markdown or schema-shaped JSON.
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firecrawl_mapDiscover URLs on a site without fetching content.
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firecrawl_crawlFetch content from many pages under a site.
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firecrawl_check_crawl_statusCheck the status of a crawl job.
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firecrawl_searchSearch the web and optionally scrape the results.
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firecrawl_parseParse an uploaded file into usable content.
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firecrawl_agentRun an autonomous research agent that returns structured data.
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firecrawl_agent_statusPoll an agent job for its results.
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firecrawl_interactClick, type or move around a page before reading it.
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firecrawl_credit_usageCheck remaining credits and usage.
Workflows
Example workflows
Load a help center into an assistant
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Map your help center.
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Crawl it with a page limit.
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Review the clean markdown output.
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Load it into your knowledge base.
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Test the assistant with real questions.
Check competitor page changes
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List the pages to watch.
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Scrape them each week.
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Compare with last week's content.
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Summarize what changed.
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Send the summary to the team.
Prompts
Example prompts
“Map our help center and list all article pages.”
“Scrape this page and return the product specifications as JSON.”
“How many credits have we used this month?”
Setup
Installation and configuration
Examples for Claude Desktop and Claude Code. Replace the placeholder values with your own keys, and store secrets outside version control.
Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-firecrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"firecrawl-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}Claude Code: terminal
claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth- Hosted server: streamable-http; https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp; https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth; Keyless (limited), OAuth, or header Authorization: Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>.
- Local server: stdio; firecrawl-mcp.
- Needs: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (local; optional on hosted keyless tier).
Security
Security considerations
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Site terms
Crawl only sites you are allowed to use.
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Credits
Watch credit usage and set limits.
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Untrusted content
Treat scraped text as data, not instructions.
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Interact tool
Review any actions the interact tool takes on pages.
Related servers
Servers that pair well with it
Apify
Apify's official MCP server lets AI find and run ready-made scrapers and automation tools, called Actors, and read their results.
Tavily
Tavily's official MCP server gives AI web search, content extraction, site mapping and crawling, all built for AI use.
Playwright
Microsoft's Playwright MCP server lets AI drive a real browser: open pages, read them, click, type, fill forms and take screenshots.
Keep exploring
Solutions and services that use it
Related services
View all related services- MCP integration Connect AI assistants to your CRM, files, databases and tools through Model Context Protocol servers, with safe permissions.
- AI agents AI that takes actions in your systems, such as qualifying leads or processing requests, with people checking the results.
- AI Product Development AI agents, knowledge assistants, copilots and document automation built into the way your team already works.
- Website speed optimization Find what makes a site slow and fix it, so pages load quickly on phones and rank better in search.
Solutions
View all solutions- Price monitoring Collect competitor prices automatically, match them to your products and alert you when something changes.
- AI sales research agent Short, sourced briefings on each prospect before a call, drafted by an AI agent from public information and your CRM.
- AI lead qualification Score, research and route every new inquiry so your team talks to the best leads first.
- Internal help desk assistant An assistant in Slack or Teams that answers policy and how-to questions from your handbooks and opens tickets when needed.
- Compliance tracking Track filing deadlines, licenses and obligations in one place, with reminders and AI summaries of relevant rule changes.
- Knowledge assistant (RAG) Ask a question in plain words and get an answer from your own documents, with links to the sources.
Industries
View all industriesGuides and articles
View all guides and articles- What are AI agents and how do businesses use them? What AI agents are, real business uses, the controls they need and how to start with one safely.
- What is the Model Context Protocol? A business guide to MCP: what it is, how MCP servers work, who supports it and how to start using it.
- How to build an AI workflow with MCP servers Plan, connect and test an AI workflow that uses MCP servers, from a single task to a reliable process.
- AI chatbot vs AI agent What separates a chatbot that answers from an agent that acts, and when you need each.
AI models
View all ai models- Claude Fable 5.1 The top tier of the Claude family, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agent work, priced above Opus.
- Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic's recommended starting point for most serious work: long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a 1M token context window.
- GPT-6 Astra OpenAI's most capable model, built for the hardest end-to-end work: complex reasoning, coding, computer use and research.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek's model for demanding reasoning and agent work, with thinking effort levels, tool calling, JSON output and a 1 million token window.
- Grok 4.7 xAI's current flagship for coding, agent tasks and knowledge work, with image input, tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning effort levels and a 500K window.
- Reasoning Models that think through multi-step problems before answering: analysis, planning, math, complex documents and agent work.
Glossary terms
View all glossary terms- RAG RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, is a method where an AI system first finds relevant passages in your documents, then answers using only those passages.
- AI agent An AI agent is software that uses a language model to plan steps, call tools and act toward a goal, instead of only answering one question.
- MCP server An MCP server is a program or hosted service that exposes a system's data and actions as tools that AI assistants can use through the Model Context Protocol.
- Model Context Protocol The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data in a consistent way.
- Tool calling Tool calling is when an AI model asks the application to run a tool, such as a search or database lookup, and then uses the result in its answer.
- Chatbot A chatbot is software that holds a conversation with people through text or voice, answering questions or completing simple tasks.
FAQ
Questions people ask us
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Yes. It is maintained by Firecrawl.
The hosted server offers a limited free tier without a key.
Clean markdown or structured data, ready for AI use.