How to Install Firecrawl MCP in Cursor

Advanced web scraping with JavaScript rendering, PDF support, and autonomous research agents

What Firecrawl MCP does

Firecrawl is the most powerful web scraping MCP server — handling JavaScript-rendered pages, PDFs, sitemaps, and multi-page crawls that simpler tools can't manage. Features: - Scrape any URL to clean markdown, even JS-heavy SPAs - Crawl entire websites with depth control and URL filtering - Extract structured data using custom schemas - Map website structure and discover all pages - Deep Research agent — autonomously researches topics across multiple sources - PDF text extraction with accurate layout preservation - Sitemap parsing and discovery - Smart rate limiting and anti-bot handling - Batch scraping with concurrent processing Why Firecrawl over Fetch/Puppeteer? - Handles headless JS rendering automatically - Built-in residential proxies for blocked sites - Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown (not raw HTML) - The Deep Research tool can tackle hour-long research tasks autonomously Free tier: 500 credits/month. Plans from $16/month.

scraping

web

crawling

research

extraction

Installation steps

1Copy the config below
2Open or create .cursor/mcp.json
3Paste inside "mcpServers": {}
4Restart Cursor or reload the window

Configuration

File location: .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global)

.cursor/mcp.jsonjson

{
  "firecrawlMcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "firecrawl-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "fc-..."
    }
  }
}

Full server details GitHub Open Config Editor

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