Official Firecrawl MCP Server

Official Firecrawl MCP Server exposes Firecrawl’s scraping, crawling, search, and deep research features to MCP clients. It is a strong choice for agents that need web extraction with a maintained API-backed service instead of hand-built scrapers.

Prerequisites

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• npm install -g firecrawl-mcp
• npx -y @smithery/cli install @mendableai/mcp-server-firecrawl --client claude
• [](https://insiders.vscode.dev/redirect/mcp/install?name=firecrawl&inputs=%5B%7B%2...
• npm install

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Note: Requires Cursor version 0.45.6+
• If not provided, the cloud API will be used (requires API key)
• export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key # If your instance requires auth

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Running with npx

• bash

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

• Source: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange