firecrawl-mcp-server

Name: firecrawl-mcp-server Review
Item: firecrawl-mcp-server
Rating: 3.8
Author: Aaron Matthews

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Enables LLM-driven automation to extract structured data from websites and search results in real-time, reducing manual data collection overhead and accelera…

Official Firecrawl MCP server. Gives Claude and other MCP clients web search, URL scraping into clean structured data, page interaction (click, navigate, operate), and deep research via the Firecrawl API. Supports cloud-hosted and self-hosted Firecrawl, with automatic retries and rate limiting.

Ask Claude to scrape a competitor's pricing page and extract all product tiers and costs.
Generate a dataset by crawling multiple documentation sites and collecting API endpoint definitions.
Automate extraction of job listings from career pages across several company websites.

7,262 starsMIT (commercial OK)FreeNo code needed

Why it matters

Enables LLM-driven automation to extract structured data from websites and search results in real-time, reducing manual data collection overhead and accelerating research-driven development workflows.

Best for

Engineering teams building LLM-powered applications or automations that require live web data integration.

Works in

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Source

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

By firecrawl

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop AppOpen the Customize panel in the sidebar → browse connectors → search and add. Works in Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Chat.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into a Claude Code conversation. Claude will run it for you.

Command

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

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

First thing to try

Once it’s connected, paste this into Claude:

Scrape a competitor's pricing page and extract all product tiers and costs

PrerequisitesFirecrawl API key (create at firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys). Alternatively the hosted keyless endpoint https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp covers scrape, search, and interact only (rate-limited); crawl, map, agent, and extract need a key.CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars7,262Contributors29Last updated2026-08-17LicenseMIT (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-08-18 · scanner v1

Data & Access

Data processingPrompts sent to Anthropic API. Enterprise/Team plans exclude training.

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 6,452 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 3d ago; license MIT.

Things to check

Scanned, not hands-on tested — this entry was auto-scanned from public metadata (GitHub metrics, license, security flags). No reviewer has run it, and no tool-specific limitations have been documented yet.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

4/5

Versatility

5/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score3.85 / 5.00 SolidEvaluatedJun 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 6,452 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 3d ago; license MIT.

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