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DimensionAlby Bitcoin Payments MCP ServerConnect a bitcoin lightning wallet to your LLM via Nostr Wallet ConnectFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS58 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability7 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions8 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation16 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Users who already have an NWC-compatible Lightning wallet and want an LLM to act on it
  • Developers integrating bitcoin payment capability into MCP-capable clients like Claude, Goose, Cline, or Windsurf
  • 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 who don't use the bitcoin Lightning Network or lack an NWC wallet
  • Use with weaker models — the README notes a capable model (e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet) is required or the server may not function correctly
  • 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
  • Requires an NWC connection secret, which grants the server the ability to act on your wallet's funds
  • In hosted/remote mode, this secret is transmitted to the Alby server as a Bearer header or URL parameter
  • 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
  • If the NWC connection secret leaks, anyone holding it can control the associated wallet's funds
  • Passing the secret via a URL query parameter risks it being logged in browser history, server logs, or proxies
  • Relying on a weaker model may lead to unintended or incorrect payment actions
  • 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 Web, Claude Code, Goose Desktop, Goose CLI, Cline, Windsurf, N8NClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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