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This guide will help you integrates Firecrawl for web scraping capabilities via Firecrawl MCP server.

Why uses Firecrawl?

Firecrawl gives your AI assistant live web scraping and search capabilities through MCP, so it can access up-to-date information from websites instead of relying only on built-in knowledge. It is especially useful for extracting webpage content, researching current information, and more.

Step-by-step to install Firecrawl MCP on TypingMind

Step 1: Get Firecrawl API key

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Step 2: Add Firecrawl as custom MCP connection

Go to Plugin → MCP Connectors → Add Connector image.png
  • Add Server URL: https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/{FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}/v2/mcp with {FIRECRAWL_API_KEY} is your copied API key in step 1.
  • Connection name: Firecrawl
  • Description: Integrate AI assistants with Firecrawl to search and scrape websites.
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  • Click Create Connection

Step 2: Set up MCP Connectors

After creating the connection with Firecrawl MCP, you will see Firecrawl appear in the plugin list, click on that to start setup your MCP connector with TypingMind: image.png
  • If you select TypingMind Cloud, you can connect to our remote MCP server in one-click without any further setup
  • If you choose to set up Private MCP Connector, then follow the steps here: Use MCP with Private MCP Connector

Step 3: Enable Firecrawl and control tool use

After successfully connecting with Firecrawl MCP, you can control which actions Firecrawl MCP should trigger within TypingMind by switching to Tools tab → Enable/disable specific tools. image.png

Step 4: Start chatting

You’re all set! image.png