Firecrawl MCP Server for VS Code
io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server
MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:npm
Install Firecrawl MCP Server in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "firecrawl-api-key",
"description": "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"firecrawl-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"firecrawl-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${input:firecrawl-api-key}"
}
}
}
}VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs