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DimensionSEC EDGAR MCP ServerGive AI assistants access to SEC EDGAR filings.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS59 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability10 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions11 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation12 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Researchers who need AI-assisted access to U.S. public-company filings
  • Users analyzing company, financial, or insider-trading data
  • Financial research workflows that require precise numbers and source links
  • 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 requiring an SEC-maintained or SEC-endorsed server
  • Public HTTP deployments requiring built-in authentication
  • Other data sources or financial-service capabilities not described in the source material
  • 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 access to the SEC EDGAR API
  • Requires the non-secret SEC_EDGAR_USER_AGENT environment variable
  • HTTP mode should run on a controlled network because authentication is not included
  • 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 states that it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • HTTP transport has no authentication and should not be exposed to untrusted networks
  • SEC API access may depend on correct user-agent configuration and external service availability
  • Financial and insider-trading information should be verified through the returned SEC filing URLs
  • 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 clientsDifyClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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