Firecrawl MCP Server

Industrial-strength scraping: crawl entire sites into clean markdown.

Web & Search MIT license Added Jul 13, 2026 Self-hosted

Firecrawl is a Web & Search MCP (Model Context Protocol) server: Industrial-strength scraping: crawl entire sites into clean markdown. It is MIT-licensed and self-hosted from its source repository. Listed on MCP Collection since July 2026.

About Firecrawl

Official Firecrawl MCP server — scrape, crawl, and extract structured data from websites. Requires a Firecrawl API key (free tier available).

How to connect Firecrawl to Claude, Cursor or VS Code

Firecrawl is self-hosted. Install it from the source repository, then register its start command in your MCP client's config (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "command": "<start command from the README>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

The exact command (often npx, uvx or docker) is in the project README at github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server.

Firecrawl FAQ

What is Firecrawl?

Firecrawl is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in the Web & Search category. Industrial-strength scraping: crawl entire sites into clean markdown. MCP servers expose tools that AI assistants like Claude can call during a conversation.

How do I use Firecrawl with Claude or Cursor?

Firecrawl is self-hosted. Install it from the source repository, then register its start command in your MCP client's config (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code).

Is Firecrawl free to use?

Firecrawl is published under the MIT license, so the software itself is free to run. Hosted or API-backed servers may have their own usage tiers; check the project homepage.

Where is the source code for Firecrawl?

The source is at github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server.

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