| FMRS | 61 / 100 · C | 77 / 100 · B | 75 / 100 · B |
| Reliability | 8 / 20 | 12 / 20 | 13 / 20 |
|---|
| Security and permissions | 14 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
|---|
| Maintenance | 9 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
|---|
| Documentation | 17 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
|---|
| Setup experience | 13 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
| Best for | - Developers who want to integrate Spotify playback control into AI assistants or workflows
- Scenarios requiring voice control of music
- Agents that need batch processing of music searches and playlist operations
| - 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
|
| Not for | - Scenarios that require a stable, final MCP protocol version (currently targets candidate)
- Users who do not want to configure OAuth and Spotify API credentials
- Developers needing fine-grained access to the full raw Spotify API
| - 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)
|
| Required permissions | - Read playback state, modify playback control (play, pause, skip, volume, etc.)
- Read and modify playlists (private, collaborative, public)
- Read and modify saved tracks in the user library
- Access current track and device information
| - 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
|
| Risks and side effects | - OAuth tokens stored in file or KV; security risk if not encrypted
- Requires correct device ID; playback control may fail if wrong
- Playback behavior depends on Spotify account type (free may be limited) and Premium service
- Since targeting MCP candidate version, protocol compatibility may change over time
| - 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
|
| Supported clients | Claude Desktop | Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Google Antigravity | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp |
| Tools | 5 | 26 | 11 |