MCP Web Search & Scrape in Kimi Code

Add Firecrawl’s Search, Scrape, and other web tools to Kimi Code CLI through the hosted MCP server.

Quick setup

Create a Firecrawl API key, then add this to ~/.kimi-code/mcp.json (or .kimi-code/mcp.json in a project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

To keep the key out of the file, export it and reference the variable instead of headers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp",
      "bearerTokenEnvVar": "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

You can also add the server interactively with /mcp-config. Start a new Kimi Code session, run /mcp, and confirm that firecrawl is connected and its tools, such as firecrawl_search and firecrawl_scrape, are listed. To sign in with your browser instead of an API key, use https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth as the URL with no headers, then run /mcp-config login firecrawl. See For Humans.

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Troubleshooting

Tools do not appear: MCP servers load when a session starts, so open a new session after editing mcp.json. A server added mid-session only joins later sessions.
Server does not connect: run /mcp to see the status, then check the URL and that the API key is correct. With bearerTokenEnvVar, the variable must be set in the shell that starts kimi.
Project-level config is ignored: untrusted folders keep project .kimi-code/mcp.json servers disabled. Trust the folder, or set KIMI_CODE_TRUST_WORKSPACE=1 for headless runs.
Prefer a local server: Kimi Code can also run npx -y firecrawl-mcp with FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in env. See Run locally.

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MCP Web Search & Scrape in Kimi Code

Quick setup

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Quick setup

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