Firecrawl

Overview

From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit.

<div align="center">  <a name="readme-top"></a>  <img    src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/main/img/fire.png"    height="140"  ></div># Firecrawl MCP ServerA Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings [Firecrawl](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl) to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.> Big thanks to [@vrknetha](https://github.com/vrknetha), [@knacklabs](https://www.knacklabs.ai) 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](https://mcp.so/playground?server=firecrawl-mcp-server) or on [Klavis AI](https://www.klavis.ai/mcp-servers).## When to Use This Server- Use `firecrawl_scrape` when you have a known URL and want its content as markdown or as JSON matching a schema you supply.- Use `firecrawl_map` when you need to discover URLs on a site without fetching their content.- Use `firecrawl_crawl` when you need content from many pages under a site; set `limit`, `includePaths`/`excludePaths`, or `maxDiscoveryDepth` to bound it.- Use `firecrawl_search` when you're starting from a query rather than a URL and want ranked web results; add `scrapeOptions` if you also want page content fetched in the same call (the search-only endpoint never fetches content).- Use `firecrawl_interact` when a page needs a click, type, or navigate action before you can read it — pass a `url` for a fresh page or a `scrapeId` to continue on one you already scraped.- Use the `firecrawl_monitor_*` tools when the same page needs to be checked on a recurring schedule with diffs and chang

Connect

Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.

claude mcp add firecrawl-mcp --env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY} -- npx -y [email protected]

Details

Source

mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server

npm

firecrawl-mcp@3.24.1

Transports

stdio

Credentials it reads

FIRECRAWL_API_KEYFIRECRAWL_MCP_ACTION_LOG_SECRETFIRECRAWL_MCP_SEARCH_OAUTH_ONLYFIRECRAWL_OAUTH_INTROSPECT_SECRETFIRECRAWL_OAUTH_ISSUERFIRECRAWL_OAUTH_TOKENKEYLESS_PROXY_SECRETMCP_DELEGATED_CREDENTIAL_SECRETMCP_OAUTH_ACCEPT_LEGACY_V2_MCP_AUDOPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN

Tools

Registered at runtime; the list could not be read from source.

License

MIT

Stars

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Trust audit

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What the source does

Filesystem

none-observed

Network

declared (6 observation(s))

Shell

none-observed

Dependencies

not all pinned

Secrets in source

found

Findings (11)

api_key: 'fc-managed-parse-key',

api_key: 'fc-untrusted-purpose',

const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/health`;

url: `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`,

return fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}${endpoint}`, {

`http://127.0.0.1:${searchPort}/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource${SEARCH_ENDPOINT}`

`http://127.0.0.1:${fullPort}/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`

dotenv, zod, @types/node, tsup, typescript

- `firecrawl_parse` now works on the remote hosted MCP server (`CLOUD_SERVICE`), not just local mode. Because the hosted server cannot read the caller's filesystem, hosted parse uses a two-call flow: 

img/fire.png

Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.

Audited 2026-09-18 · audit v0.4.0 · source sha 436fd1a4207c · full audit: observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/mendableai__firecrawl.json · Report an issue or request a re-scan

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