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firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server

RepoRadar surfaced firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server — an MCP server — into the Radar section, where it sits at Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.6 out of 10.

Score8.5
Popularity58.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty6.0
Momentum8.0
Maturity7.8
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.6
Setup ease6.4

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for people building agents that need dependable website retrieval and extraction instead of brittle one-off scraping scripts.

Who should use it

agent builders research automation support teams extracting docs developers working with web data

Who should skip it

Skip firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server if the source link, documentation, or setup requirements do not align with your current workflow or stack.

About this signal

firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server is tracked by RepoRadar as an MCP server in the Radar section. First seen 2026-06-20; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-20. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server leads on workflow potential (9.6) and practical usefulness (9.0); its lowest signal is novelty (6.0), so factor that in before investing setup time. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server record combines a 8.5/10 composite score with separate popularity (58.0), risk (conditional), and setup (moderate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to vet an AI agent or MCP server before you wire it in for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

Prompts and fetched page content may transit a third-party service, so do not point it at private or regulated data before reviewing the data path; Scraping internal or authenticated sites through an external service can leak content or trigger policy problems if you treat it like a generic browser.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
mcp web-search scraping content-extraction agents
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

45 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-20 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.5 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.3 current · +1.3 net
GitHub stars (observed)7,227 current · +296 net
GitHub stars7,227 exact observation
Versionv3.2.1
Last release2025-09-26T07:31:17Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineClaude, Model Context Protocol

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.59.37,227conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-128.59.67,221conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-118.59.37,207conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-108.59.67,198conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-098.59.37,183conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-088.59.67,175conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-078.59.37,113conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-068.58.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.58.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.59.37,113conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-038.59.37,113conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.59.37,106conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

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Source-observed stars changed: 7094 → 7096. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

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Source-observed stars changed: 6976 → 6978. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.