firecrawl

Provides access to the Firecrawl API for web crawling and scraping. Runs locally as a subprocess via npx but requires a Firecrawl API key and supports retry/credit config.

Node

data-engineering

api-development

Add to Your Project

Copy this JSON into your .mcp.json to enable this server

Add to your .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}",
        "FIRECRAWL_API_URL": "${FIRECRAWL_API_URL:-https://api.firecrawl.dev}",
        "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY:-10000}",
        "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS:-3}",
        "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY:-1000}",
        "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR:-2}",
        "FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD": "${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD:-1000}",
        "FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD": "${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD:-100}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace placeholder values for: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Security Considerations

Review these signals before enabling this server

Requires secrets

This MCP server needs API keys or credentials. Configure them in your environment before use.

External connections

This server connects to external services. Review the URLs it accesses before enabling.

Details

Server configuration and connection parameters

Commandnpx

Access Levelwrite

Arguments

Command-line arguments passed to the server process

-yfirecrawl-mcp

Environment Variables

Environment variables set when the server starts

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}

FIRECRAWL_API_URL=${FIRECRAWL_API_URL:-https://api.firecrawl.dev}

FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY=${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY:-10000}

FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS=${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS:-3}

FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY=${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY:-1000}

FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR=${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR:-2}

FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD=${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD:-1000}

FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD=${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD:-100}

Required Secrets

Sensitive values you must provide — never committed to source control

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

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LanguagePython

Parent stars67

Parent forks10

MaintenanceExcellent

Last CommitMar 17, 2026

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{ "mcpServers": { "firecrawl": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "firecrawl-mcp" ], "env": { "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}", "FIRECRAWL_API_URL": "${FIRECRAWL_API_URL:-https://api.firecrawl.dev}", "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY:-10000}", "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS:-3}", "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY:-1000}", "FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR": "${FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR:-2}", "FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD": "${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD:-1000}", "FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD": "${FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD:-100}" } } } }