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Firecrawl MCP Server

local MCP server

Firecrawl MCP Server is a local MCP server: MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search. Install it from npm as firecrawl-mcp.

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add firecrawl-mcp-server -e FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=... -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

What you need

  • Runtime: Node.js 18+ (runs with npx).
  • MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other client that speaks MCP over stdio.
  • Environment variables: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Summary

MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.

Firecrawl MCP Server vs similar servers

ServerStarsTypeAPI keyRuntime
Firecrawl MCP Server7,526LocalYesnpm
arxiv-mcp-server3,177LocalYespypi
mcp-sap-docs233LocalNonpm
one-search-mcp143LocalYesnpm
mcp-server-search39KLocalNonpm

Questions

It reads one environment variable: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. Set them in your MCP config before starting the server.

Node.js 18+ (runs with npx), plus an MCP client such as Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor.

Firecrawl MCP Server is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package firecrawl-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add firecrawl-mcp-server -e FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=... -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Run: codex mcp add firecrawl-mcp-server --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=... -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

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