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🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.

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Editor's note

The official Firecrawl MCP Server is a JavaScript-based Model Context Protocol server that gives MCP-compatible AI clients, including Claude Desktop, live access to the web through Firecrawl's API. It exposes tools for scraping any URL into clean structured data, conducting web searches that return full page content, performing multi-step browser interactions such as clicking and navigating, and running deep autonomous research tasks across multiple pages. Built-in automatic retries and rate limiting handle unreliable connections, and the server supports both the Firecrawl cloud API and self-hosted Firecrawl instances via a single environment variable switch. It can be added to Claude Desktop through Smithery's one-command installer or configured manually with npx, and it also works in Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code. A notable detail is the SSE and Streamable HTTP transport support, which allows the server to run as a local HTTP endpoint at localhost:3000 rather than the default stdio mode. Developers, researchers, and data engineers who need an AI agent to retrieve and process live web content are the primary audience.

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Last scanned: 9/11/2026
Install in Claude Code / Claude Desktop
Method: Manual
Claude Code CLI
git clone https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server
claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/firecrawl-mcp-server/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}
1. Run the command above in your terminal (Claude Code), or paste the JSON config into claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop).
2. Replace any <placeholder> values with your API keys or paths.
3. Restart Claude. The MCP server and its tools appear automatically.
💡 Clone https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server and follow its README for install instructions.
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firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server is mcp servers for the Claude AI ecosystem. 🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients. It has 7.4k GitHub stars and its last recorded update is dated 2026-09-10.

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You can install firecrawl-mcp-server by cloning the repository (https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server) or following the README instructions on GitHub. ClaudeWave also provides quick install blocks on this page.

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Who maintains firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server?

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firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server is maintained by firecrawl. The last recorded GitHub activity is dated 2026-09-10, with 130 open issues.

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