@mendableai/firecrawl Mcp Server
About
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
Details
- Transport
- SSE
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Explore
- Search: Find information across the web
- Scrape: Clean data from any page
- Interact: Click, navigate, and operate pages
- Agent: Autonomous data gathering
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
@mendableai/firecrawl Mcp ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Sign up at firecrawl.dev to get your API key. Try the playground to test it out.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"@mendableai/firecrawl mcp server": {
"@mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcprouter"
],
"env": {
"SERVER_KEY": "p8j3rxm8wyddzg"
}
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"@mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcprouter"
],
"env": {
"SERVER_KEY": "p8j3rxm8wyddzg"
}
}
}🔥 Firecrawl
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥 The web context API to find sources, extract content, and turn it into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Open source and available as a hosted service.
_Pst. Hey, you, join our stargazers :)_
<a href="https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl">
</a>
---
Why Firecrawl?
- Industry-leading reliability: Covers 96% of the web, including JS-heavy pages — no proxy headaches, just clean data (see benchmarks)
- Blazingly fast: P95 latency of 3.4s across millions of pages, built for real-time agents and dynamic apps
- LLM-ready output: Clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and more — spend fewer tokens, build better AI apps
- We handle the hard stuff: Rotating proxies, orchestration, rate limits, JS-blocked content, and more — zero configuration
- Agent ready: Connect Firecrawl to any AI agent or MCP client with a single command
- Media parsing: Parse and extract content from web-hosted PDFs, DOCX, and more
- Actions: Click, scroll, write, wait, and press before extracting content
- Open source: Developed transparently and collaboratively — join our community
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Feature Overview
Core Endpoints
| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| Search | Search the web and get full page content from results |
| Scrape | Convert any URL to markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON |
| Interact | Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code |
More
| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| Agent | Automated data gathering, just describe what you need |
| Crawl | Scrape all URLs of a website with a single request |
| Map | Discover all URLs on a website instantly |
| Batch Scrape | Scrape thousands of URLs asynchronously |
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Quick Start
Sign up at firecrawl.dev to get your API key. Try the playground to test it out.
Search
Search the web and get full content from results.
from firecrawl import Firecrawl
app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")
search_result = app.search("firecrawl", limit=5)
<details>
<summary><b>Node.js / cURL / CLI</b></summary>
Node.js
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';
const app = new Firecrawl({apiKey: "fc-YOUR_API_KEY"});
app.search("firecrawl", { limit: 5 })
cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"query": "firecrawl",
"limit": 5
}'
CLI
firecrawl search "firecrawl" --limit 5
</details>
Output:
[
{
"url": "https://firecrawl.dev",
"title": "Firecrawl",
"markdown": "Turn websites into..."
},
{
"url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev",
"title": "Firecrawl Docs",
"markdown": "# Getting Started..."
}
]
Scrape
Get LLM-ready data from any website — markdown, JSON, screenshots, and more.
from firecrawl import Firecrawl
app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")
result = app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')
<details>
<summary><b>Node.js / cURL / CLI</b></summary>
Node.js
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';
const app = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: "fc-YOUR_API_KEY" });
app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')
cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"url": "firecrawl.dev"
}'
CLI
firecrawl scrape https://firecrawl.dev
firecrawl https://firecrawl.dev --only-main-content
</details>
Output:
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