Firecrawl MCP Server

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Firecrawl MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 30 339 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 31 014 · avg 11 153 · -2% w/w

a month agotoday

30 339

Installs / week

npm · firecrawl-mcp

7478

Stars

83 open issues

17 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Firecrawl MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add firecrawl-mcp-server -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.firecrawl-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (Your API key for Firecrawl). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Firecrawl MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Firecrawl MCP Server?

Firecrawl MCP Server runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package firecrawl-mcp was installed 30 339 times last week.

How do I connect Firecrawl MCP Server?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls firecrawl-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Firecrawl MCP Server?

The npm package firecrawl-mcp was installed 30 339 times in the last week. Week over week that is -2%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Firecrawl MCP Server open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 7 478 stars on GitHub and 83 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.