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DimensionLobeHubOrganize and operate your AI team.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS33 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability2 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions6 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2016 / 20
Documentation8 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience5 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Individuals who want to manage multiple AI agents in one place
  • Teams that need agent collaboration, scheduling, and project organization
  • Developers and users who want to self-host an AI application
  • 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 seeking a standalone MCP server with documented tools and transport
  • Users who do not want to configure a model API key or deployment infrastructure
  • Users requiring a plugin system that is described as fully stable and complete
  • 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
  • Self-hosting requires OPENAI_API_KEY
  • Specific MCP tool permissions, client permissions, and authentication methods are not documented in the provided material
  • Available agent plugins and skills depend on configuration
  • 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
  • The project is under active development, so functionality may change
  • The plugin system is undergoing major development
  • Personal memory can affect agent behavior and should be reviewed and managed
  • Deployment and use may incur model API costs
  • 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, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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