Firecrawl Local MCP Server: Setup for Claude, Cursor and Other Apps

• Gets the content of one web page

  Scrapes a single page and returns JSON or Markdown.

  Try: “Scrape https://example.com/pricing and summarize the plans.”

  Network · firecrawl_scrape

• Searches the web

  Runs a web search and returns results.

  Try: “Search the web for recent news about MCP servers.”

  Network · firecrawl_search

• Lists the URLs on a website

  Discovers the pages of a site and returns their URLs.

  Try: “List all the pages on docs.example.com.”

  Network · firecrawl_map

• Reads many pages of a site

  Crawls a site with limits and returns the final status and data after it polls the job.

  Try: “Crawl the blog section and collect the post titles.”

  Network · firecrawl_crawl

• Checks on a crawl

  Returns the status of a crawl job.

  Try: “Is my crawl done?”

  Network · firecrawl_check_crawl_status

• Turns a file into Markdown or JSON

  Parses PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets and HTML files into Markdown or structured JSON. Local runs can read the file directly.

  Try: “Parse this PDF into Markdown.”

  Files · firecrawl_parse

• Researches across many sites

  Runs an agent that gathers structured data from many or unknown sites.

  Try: “Find the pricing of the top five project tools as a table.”

  Network · firecrawl_agent

• Checks on an agent run

  Returns the status and results of an agent run.

  Try: “How is my research run going?”

  Network · firecrawl_agent_status

• Clicks and types on a page

  Interacts with a URL or a scraped page and returns the result.

  Try: “Open this page, click "Load more" and read the new items.”

  Write · firecrawl_interact

• Ends a page session

  Stops an interact session.

  Try: “Close the browser session.”

  Write · firecrawl_interact_stop

• Searches developer sources

  Answers programming questions with passages from developer sources.

  Try: “How do I paginate with the Stripe API?”

  Network · firecrawl_developer_search

• Searches US law and regulations

  Searches US primary law and regulatory material.

  Try: “What does the law say about data breach notice?”

  Network · firecrawl_gov_search

• Searches research papers

  Searches for papers on a topic.

  Try: “Find recent papers on retrieval augmented generation.”

  Network · firecrawl_research_search_papers

• Reads a research paper

  Reads the content of a paper.

  Try: “Read this paper and summarize the method.”

  Network · firecrawl_research_read_paper

• Finds related papers

  Finds papers related to one you name.

  Try: “Find papers related to this one.”

  Network · firecrawl_research_related_papers

• Looks inside a paper

  Inspects a paper and its repository matches.

  Try: “Does this paper have code on GitHub?”

  Network · firecrawl_research_inspect_paper

• Browses the Alexandria tool catalog

  Browses Firecrawl's Alexandria catalog of providers and tool contracts, or looks up a URL.

  Try: “What tools can read this site?”

  Network · firecrawl_find_tools

• Starts watching a page for changes

  Creates a monitor that checks a page on a schedule and records diffs.

  Try: “Watch this pricing page and tell me when it changes.”

  Write · firecrawl_monitor_create

• Lists your page monitors

  Lists your monitors.

  Try: “What pages am I monitoring?”

  Network · firecrawl_monitor_list

• Shows one monitor

  Gets one monitor.

  Try: “Show the pricing page monitor.”

  Network · firecrawl_monitor_get

• Changes a monitor

  Updates fields such as the goal, webhook and notification.

  Try: “Send alerts for that monitor to my webhook.”

  Write · firecrawl_monitor_update

• Checks a page now

  Triggers a monitor check right away.

  Try: “Run the pricing monitor now.”

  Write · firecrawl_monitor_run

• Lists past checks

  Lists checks for a monitor, optionally by status.

  Try: “List the last checks for that monitor.”

  Network · firecrawl_monitor_checks

• Shows what changed in one check

  Gets page-level results for a check, including the diff.

  Try: “What changed in the last check?”

  Network · firecrawl_monitor_check

• Deletes a monitor

  Deletes a monitor. The README says to call it only when you mean to remove it.

  Try: “Delete the pricing page monitor.”

  Delete · firecrawl_monitor_delete

• Shows your credit use

  Reports how many Firecrawl credits you have used.

  Try: “How many Firecrawl credits have I used?”

  Network · firecrawl_credit_usage

• Rates a search result

  Sends feedback about a search to Firecrawl.

  Try: “That search missed the answer, send feedback.”

  Write · firecrawl_search_feedback

• Sends general feedback

  Sends general feedback to Firecrawl.

  Try: “Send feedback that the scrape was incomplete.”

  Write · firecrawl_feedback

Watch out for

• It can delete the page monitors in your account

  The monitor tools create, update and delete recurring checks. Only ask for a delete when you mean it.

• Crawls and agent runs can use up your credits

  Crawl and agent tools can fetch many pages in one request. Set limits in the request and watch your usage.

• Web pages can carry hidden instructions

  Text scraped from a site can try to steer the assistant. Do not give the assistant other tools that change things in the same chat when you scrape pages you do not trust.

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