{"slug": "firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update", "title": "firecrawl-mcp-server shipped an update", "summary": "Firecrawl shipped an update to firecrawl-mcp-server, its open-source Model Context Protocol server that adds web scraping and search to MCP-compatible AI agents such as Cursor and Claude. The JavaScript project, which has 7.3k stars on GitHub and was last updated in August 2026, now lets scrape, search, and interact run without an API key on a rate-limited keyless free tier, while crawl, map, agent, and extract still require a key. Firecrawl recommends an API key or OAuth for the full tool set and higher limits, and the server installs via npm install -g firecrawl-mcp.", "body_md": "# firecrawl-mcp-server\n\nOfficial Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.\n\n## About firecrawl-mcp-server\n\nA Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.\n\nOn the keyless free tier, scrape, search, and interact work without an API key (rate-limited). Other tools such as crawl, map, agent, and extract still need a key.\n\nPrefer an API key or OAuth whenever the human can sign up. It unlocks the full tool set and higher limits. With a key, use:\n\nfirecrawl-mcp-server is an open-source project written primarily in JavaScript, with 7.3k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.\n\n```\nnpm install -g firecrawl-mcp\n```\n\n## firecrawl-mcp-server vs. the alternatives\n\n[All 27 alternatives →](/alternatives/firecrawl-mcp-server)\n\n| Record | Stars | Pricing |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| firecrawl-mcp-serverthis listing | 7.3k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [context7](/agents/context7) | 61k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [chrome-devtools-mcp](/agents/chrome-devtools-mcp) | 50k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [github-mcp-server](/agents/github-mcp-server) | 32k | Go | MIT | Open source | \n| [serena](/agents/serena) | 28k | Python | MIT | Open source | \n| [fastmcp](/agents/fastmcp) | 27k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open source |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update", "canonical_source": "https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/firecrawl-mcp-server", "published_at": "2026-09-12 23:34:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-13 01:27:02.108651+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Firecrawl", "firecrawl-mcp-server", "Model Context Protocol", "Cursor", "Claude", "GitHub", "npm"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/firecrawl-mcp-server-shipped-an-update.jsonld"}}