Firecrawl is a web scraping and crawling platform that extracts content from websites with JavaScript rendering support and AI-powered structured data extraction capabilities. Key features of Firecrawl: - Scrape single pages or crawl entire websites with automatic URL discovery - Render JavaScript-heavy pages for dynamic content extraction - Batch process URLs with automatic rate limiting and exponential backoff retries - Perform deep research using LLM-powered structured data extraction - Execute web searches with integrated content extraction - Filter extracted content with smart tag inclusion and exclusion rules - Simulate mobile and desktop viewports for testing responsive sites - Monitor API credit usage and handle rate limits automatically - Deploy with cloud-hosted or self-managed instances

Firecrawl MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that integrates with Firecrawl for web scraping capabilities.

> Big thanks to @vrknetha, @cawstudios for the initial implementation! > > You can also play around with our MCP Server on MCP.so's playground. Thanks to MCP.so for hosting and @gstarwd for integrating our server.

Features

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

To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor v0.45.6

1. Open Cursor Settings 2. Go to Features > MCP Servers 3. Click "+ Add New MCP Server" 4. Enter the following: - Name: "firecrawl-mcp" (or your preferred name) - Type: "command" - Command: env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key npx -y firecrawl-mcp

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"
         }
       }
     }
   }
   

> If you are using Windows and are running into issues, try cmd /c "set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key && npx -y firecrawl-mcp"

Replace your-api-key with your Firecrawl API key. If you don't have one yet, you can create an account and get it from https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys

After adding, refresh the MCP server list to see the new tools. The Composer Agent will automatically use Firecrawl MCP when appropriate, but you can explicitly request it by describing your web scraping needs. Access the Composer via Command+L (Mac), select "Agent" next to the submit button, and enter your query.

Running on Windsurf

Add this to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json:

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

Installing via Smithery (Legacy)

To install Firecrawl for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @mendableai/mcp-server-firecrawl --client claude

Configuration

Environment Variables

#### Required for Cloud API

#### Optional Configuration

##### Retry Configuration

##### Credit Usage Monitoring

Configuration Examples

For cloud API usage with custom retry and credit monitoring:

```bash

Required for cloud API

Optional retry configuration

Optional credit monitoring