Firecrawl

Turn websites into clean markdown for your agent — crawl, scrape and search.

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What it connects

Empowers LLMs with web scraping: content extraction, crawling whole sections of a site, and search. Useful for research tasks and pulling structured content out of messy pages.

Capabilities

• Scrape a page to markdown
• Crawl a site section
• Web search

Compatibility

Clients listed by publisher: Claude Code, Cursor, Cline

Configuration

Claude Code

claude mcp add firecrawl --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_KEY -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

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

Requirements

• Firecrawl API key

Source: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server · Publisher: Mendable · ★ 7.8k on the source repo

Setup instructions and compatibility are compiled from publisher docs and community reports, not hands-on testing, unless a step is marked Tested. Check the source before relying on a setup.