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Choose the setup for the app you use. Both paths are optional; you only need to connect the one you want to use.

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Optional: Add to Claude

Add to Claude
  1. Open the Firecrawl connector using the button above.
  2. Connect your Firecrawl account and approve access when prompted.
  3. Start a new Claude conversation, enable Firecrawl, and ask it to search or read a page.

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Optional: Set up Claude Code

Connect Claude Code through the hosted MCP server. Run the command below, then sign in through your browser.

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1. Add Firecrawl

Run:
https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth is a client configuration value, not a page to open directly in a browser.

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2. Sign in and verify

Enter /mcp in Claude Code, choose firecrawl, and complete the browser sign-in. Start a new Claude Code session if you changed an existing Firecrawl connection. Confirm that only one firecrawl server is active, then try:

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What you can do

Search

Find current information and read the content of relevant results.

Scrape

Turn URLs into clean markdown or structured data.

Interact

Navigate, click, and fill forms to reach the data you need.

Alexandria

Discover structured data tools, inspect inputs and pricing, then run them through Firecrawl.

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Other connection modes

  • Try keyless MCP for Search, Scrape, and Parse without an account or key.
  • Configure an API key for unattended use. Keep the secret outside agent chat and use an environment-variable reference.
  • Run MCP locally only when you need a local process or a self-hosted Firecrawl API. The local package requires Node.js 22 or newer.

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Optional: literature research

For paper and literature work, the research-index skill routes those queries to the firecrawl_research_* tools and the Research Index instead of general web search:

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Troubleshooting

  • A Firecrawl server already exists: run claude mcp remove firecrawl, add the intended connection once, then start a new session.
  • The browser does not open: enter /mcp, select firecrawl, and start authentication from the client.
  • The server shows 401: sign in again through /mcp; do not paste an API key into the conversation or OAuth URL.