Credentials. The MCP config holds your API key; keep it out of shared or committed config files.
Who it is forA developer whose coding agent keeps guessing at docs that changed last month.
The problemAgents answer from stale training data when the library docs moved on.
The outcomeAn agent that can search the web and pull clean page content mid-task.
What you need first
- A Firecrawl API key from the hosted service, or a self-hosted instance
- Python, Node.js, or curl; or an MCP client such as Claude Code or Cursor
Steps
- Install the skill with
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browserand restart your agent - Or add the MCP server: an mcpServers entry named firecrawl-mcp that runs npx with the firecrawl-mcp package and FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in env
- Ask the agent to search for the current docs and scrape the relevant page before it writes code
Prompt for your agent
Add the firecrawl/firecrawl MCP server to my <Claude Code or Cursor> config with FIRECRAWL_API_KEY from my environment, restart, and test it by fetching the current docs page for <library>.
Caveat.
Use this in your AI agent
Ask your agent
Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for firecrawl/firecrawl and "Give Claude Code or Cursor live web search and scraping"
Add Deduped to Claude Code once
claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp
Every Monday: the 5 hottest repos and exactly how to use them. Free, one email a week, unsubscribe anytime.
Get them freeShare: X LinkedIn Hacker News Email Copy link
Third-party repos we don't own. AI-written use cases can be wrong. Disclaimer