MCP Server
Retrieval & Memory
Firecrawl MCP
1Crawl 2and 3scrape 4sites 5for 6agents.
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Official server from Firecrawl.
W2
What
Crawls, scrapes, and extracts clean web content.
W3
Where
Runs locally or via Firecrawl's hosted API.
W4
When
When an agent needs whole-site content.
W5
Why
Turns messy websites into structured, model-ready data.
W6
With
A Firecrawl API key and any MCP client.
W7
Watch
Official Firecrawl (Mendable) repo. Wants a Firecrawl API key; crawling runs through Firecrawl's hosted service, so target URLs leave your machine. Scraped content is untrusted input.
alternatives