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MCP Web Search & Scrape in Gemini CLI ​

Add Firecrawl web scraping and search to Google Gemini CLI

Add Firecrawl's search, scrape, crawl, and browser tools to Google Gemini CLI via MCP.

Quick Setup ​

1. Get Your API Key ​

Sign up at firecrawl.dev/app and copy your API key.

2. Add Firecrawl to Gemini CLI ​

Gemini CLI reads MCP config from ~/.gemini/settings.json (global) or .gemini/settings.json in your project. Add:

json
{
"mcpServers": {
  "firecrawl": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
    "env": {
      "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "fc-YOUR-API-KEY"
    }
  }
}
}

Replace fc-YOUR-API-KEY with your Firecrawl API key.

3. Launch Gemini CLI ​

bash
gemini

Confirm the server is loaded:

/mcp list

You should see firecrawl and its tools.

Quick Demo ​

Use firecrawl to search the web for "Gemini 2.5 context window" and summarize the top 5 results.
Scrape https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs and outline the sections.
Crawl https://example.com and extract the product names from /products.

Remote Hosted URL (no Node.js required) ​

json
{
"mcpServers": {
  "firecrawl": {
    "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/fc-YOUR-API-KEY/v2/mcp"
  }
}
}

Troubleshooting ​

  • Tools don't show up, restart Gemini CLI after editing settings.json; MCP servers are loaded at startup.
  • spawn npx ENOENT, install Node.js 18+ or use the remote hosted URL.
  • Rate-limited, upgrade your Firecrawl plan at firecrawl.dev/pricing.