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DimensionAffiliate Networks MCPAsk your affiliate networks in plain English from your AI workspace.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS70 / 100 · B75 / 100 · B
Reliability11 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions14 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance14 / 2016 / 20
Documentation17 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Affiliate publishers who want natural-language access to multiple networks
  • Agencies managing multiple brands' programs
  • Teams needing periodic reporting and anomaly monitoring
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Users without an AI client (e.g., Claude Desktop)
  • Advertisers needing write operations (e.g., link creation) since advertiser adapters are read-only
  • Clients that are not yet officially supported (e.g., Cursor, VS Code) without testing
  • Networks where clicks are essential, as many adapters lack click support
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Credentials for network APIs (API keys, tokens, etc.)
  • Optional: local file write to `~/.affiliate-mcp/.env` and `brands.json`
  • Optional: anonymous usage telemetry (off by default)
  • Optional: local result cache (off by default; writes files when enabled)
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Experimental community adapters may be unreliable or return inaccurate data.
  • Credentials stored in local files; risk if file permissions are loose or device compromised.
  • Hosted connector stores credentials in encrypted vault but involves third-party service.
  • API calls may incur rate limits or costs depending on the network.
  • Untested client paths may not work; check support status table.
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Claude CoworkClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
Tools011