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Firecrawl MCP Server for Claude Desktop

io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server

MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Firecrawl MCP Server in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "firecrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "<FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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