firecrawl-mcp-server MCP server

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

What firecrawl-mcp-server does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Features

• Search the web and get full page content
• Search an index built for coding agents: GitHub issues, merged pull requests, READMEs, and docs
• Scrape any URL into clean, structured data
• Interact with pages — click, navigate, and operate
• Deep research with autonomous agent
• Check current and historical Firecrawl credit usage

Tools exposed (20+)

• prompt – Natural language description of the data you want (required, max 10,000 characters)
• urls – Optional array of URLs to focus the agent on specific pages
• schema – Optional JSON schema for structured output
• effort – Optional. `"low"`, `"medium"` or `"high"` reasoning budget for the agent task.
• maxCredits – Optional positive integer. Spending limit in credits for this run. The API defaults to 2,500 when omitted, and caps a free request at 2,500.
• strictConstrainToURLs – Optional boolean. If `true`, the agent only visits the URLs in `urls`.
• threadId – Optional. Continue an existing thread: the `threadId` from an earlier `firecrawlagent` or `firecrawlagentstatus` result. Omit to start a new
• mode – Optional. `"extract"` (default) returns the complete structured result every turn. `"chat"` lets a follow-up that asks for no new data get a
• exchange – Optional. Alexandria provider settings for this turn, forwarded as-is to `POST /v2/agent`:
• processing – Agent is still researching - check back later
• completed – Research finished - response includes the extracted data
• failed – An error occurred
• firecrawl_research_search_papers – search paper metadata and abstracts with a natural-language query, with optional author, category, and date filters.
• firecrawl_research_inspect_paper – retrieve canonical metadata for one paper ID (arXiv, PMC, PMID, or DOI).
• firecrawl_research_related_papers – expand from one or more anchor papers through the citation graph.
• firecrawl_research_read_paper – read full-text passages from a specific paper.
• firecrawl_monitor_list – list monitors.
• firecrawl_monitor_get – get one monitor.
• firecrawl_monitor_update – update fields including `goal`, `judgeEnabled`, `webhook`, and `notification`.
• firecrawl_monitor_run – trigger a check now.

How to install firecrawl-mcp-server

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