| FMRS | 57 / 100 · C | 77 / 100 · B | 75 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 8 / 20 | 12 / 20 | 13 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 12 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 12 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 12 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Writing and research workflows that need spoken YouTube content as text
- Users who want quick video information inside an MCP client
| - Hevy PRO users who want AI assistants to directly access their workout data
- People who prefer using MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, Codex for fitness tracking
- Anyone needing summaries and insights from their training 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
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| Not for | - Scenarios that require downloading or playing the YouTube video itself
- Environments where YouTube access is restricted and no proxy is configured
| - Users without a Hevy PRO subscription (API key required)
- Users who want to use the server without an API key
- Those needing delete workflows (Hevy API does not expose delete endpoints)
| - 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)
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| Required permissions | - Reading local environment variables (e.g. WEBSHARE_PROXY_USERNAME, WEBSHARE_PROXY_PASSWORD, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY)
- Network access to YouTube
- Network access through a proxy server (if configured)
| - Requires HEVY_API_KEY environment variable for Hevy API authentication
- Can create, update, and replace workouts, routines, folders, templates, and body measurements via tools
- Read operations can fetch workouts, routines, folders, templates, history, and user info
| - 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
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| Risks and side effects | - YouTube may impose IP bans on the request source, causing requests to fail
- Proxy credentials stored as environment variables or command line arguments may be readable by other processes on the machine
- Transcripts are external untrusted content and may contain errors or injected text
- Long transcripts can exceed model context limits and depend on pagination
| - API key can be misused if leaked; do not expose in URLs, logs, or screenshots
- Create operations may produce duplicates on retry; update operations replace existing records
- The server sends data to the Hevy API and may send telemetry to external services unless disabled
| - 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
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| Supported clients | Claude Desktop, goose, LM Studio | Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Google Antigravity | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp |
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| Tools | 4 | 26 | 11 |
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