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DimensionOpenMetadataGoverned data context and business semantics for AI assistants and agents.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS51 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability7 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions10 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation11 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience10 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Data teams with an OpenMetadata deployment
  • AI assistants and agents that need governed data context
  • Organizations performing discovery across semantics, lineage, quality, policies, and business terms
  • 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 OpenMetadata deployment
  • Use cases that only require direct access to a raw database or files
  • Browser automation, cloud storage, or general collaboration workflows
  • 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
  • Access to the target OpenMetadata deployment's /mcp endpoint is required
  • Authentication is required through OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and the existing SSO provider, or through Basic Auth
  • The available metadata and data-quality operations are controlled by OpenMetadata authentication, authorization, roles, and policies
  • 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 connection may expose permission-controlled metadata, lineage, quality, policy, and memory content from the deployment
  • Accounts with write permissions may update descriptions, tags, owners, and other metadata, or create glossary terms, lineage, and quality tests
  • Semantic-search results or memories may contain internal organizational knowledge and should be governed accordingly
  • 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
Tools011