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DimensionClinicalTrials.gov MCP ServerSearch ClinicalTrials.gov trials, retrieve study details and results, and match patients to eligible trials via MCP.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS60 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2016 / 20
Documentation15 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Clinical researchers
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Patient navigators
  • AI agents needing access to clinical trial data
  • 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
  • Not an official source for clinical trials; it's a wrapper for ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Does not provide medical advice
  • Not suitable for use with data sources other than ClinicalTrials.gov API
  • 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
  • No API keys required; uses the public API
  • May require network access to reach the hosted instance or install packages
  • If self-hosting, may require permissions to execute and run on your system
  • 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
  • Reliance on the ClinicalTrials.gov API, which may change or become unavailable
  • Data fetched from the API may be incomplete or outdated
  • Fuzzy matching in search may return irrelevant trials
  • Public hosted instance may be rate-limited or have privacy concerns
  • 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, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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