Is Firecrawl Mcp Server safe to use?

Firecrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Firecrawl Mcp Server?

Firecrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Firecrawl Mcp Server do?

Firecrawl Mcp Server provides 4 tools: scrape, crawl, search, batch. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Firecrawl Mcp Server?

Firecrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Firecrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?

Firecrawl Mcp Server is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 7,295 GitHub stars.

Firecrawl MCP Server

Name: Firecrawl MCP Server
Author: firecrawl

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firecrawl-mcp · by firecrawl

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

7.3k 53.5k/wk 4 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 1d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

4 tools · ~161 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Firecrawl MCP Server is an MCP server that 🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, sse and http, requires no API key, and scores 95/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

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Is Firecrawl Mcp Server safe to use?: Firecrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Firecrawl Mcp Server?: Firecrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Firecrawl Mcp Server do?: Firecrawl Mcp Server provides 4 tools: scrape, crawl, search, batch. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Firecrawl Mcp Server?: Firecrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Firecrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Firecrawl Mcp Server is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 7,295 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

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Firecrawl MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.

Big thanks to @vrknetha, @knacklabs for the initial implementation!

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
Automatic retries and rate limiting
Cloud and self-hosted support
SSE support

Play around with our MCP Server on MCP.so's playground or on Klavis AI.

Installation

Hosted MCP (keyless free tier)

Connect to the remote hosted server with no setup:

https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp

On the keyless free tier, scrape, search, and parse work without an API key (rate-limited). Other tools such as crawl, map, and agent still need a key.

Prefer OAuth or an API key whenever the human can sign up. It unlocks the full tool set and higher limits.

For an interactive account connection, configure your MCP client to use this server URL. This is an MCP endpoint, not a browser page; use the client's account-connection flow and do not add a second Firecrawl server entry when reconnecting:

https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth

For an API-key connection (for example, an unattended integration), keep the server URL as:

https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp

Then configure the client's secure header or secret setting with:

Authorization: Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>

Never put an API key in the server URL. Never put an API key in an agent chat. Configure it directly in the client or secret manager. See the hosted MCP setup guide and the agent onboarding guide for client-specific instructions.

Search-only endpoint

A read-only, search-only surface is also hosted at:

https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-search

It exposes a fixed set of six read-only tools: firecrawl_search and the five firecrawl_research_* tools. It performs no page-content fetching and has its own OAuth identity; the full endpoint above is unchanged. See docs/search-profile.md for the full contract.

Running with npx

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

Manual Installation

npm install -g firecrawl-mcp

Running on Cursor

Configuring Cursor 🖥️ Note: Requires Cursor version 0.45.6+ For the most up-to-date configuration instructions, please refer to the official Cursor documentation on configuring MCP servers: Cursor MCP Server Configuration Guide

To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor v0.48.6

Open Cursor Settings
Go to Features > MCP Servers
Click "+ Add new global MCP server"

Enter the following code:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR-API-KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor v0.45.6

Open Cursor Settings
Go to Features > MCP Servers
Click "+ Add New MCP Server"
Enter the following:
- Name: "firecrawl-mcp" (or your preferred name)
- Type: "command"
- Command: `env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key npx

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

95/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−5

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked firecrawl-mcp against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (4)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~161 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Firecrawl Mcp Server safe to use?: Firecrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Firecrawl Mcp Server?: Firecrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Firecrawl Mcp Server do?: Firecrawl Mcp Server provides 4 tools: scrape, crawl, search, batch. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Firecrawl Mcp Server?: Firecrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Firecrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Firecrawl Mcp Server is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 7,295 GitHub stars.