firecrawl-mcp-server vs everything

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	firecrawl-mcp-server by firecrawl	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 6,317	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	60	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Web ScrapingDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	JavaScript	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

firecrawl-mcp-server · Summary

Official Firecrawl MCP Server brings web scraping, search, and page interaction capabilities to MCP-compatible AI agents.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

firecrawl-mcp-server · Use cases

Web research for content analysis and information gathering
Automated data extraction from websites for business intelligence
Real-time web search capabilities integrated into AI conversations

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

firecrawl-mcp-server · Install

Installation

Running with npx

env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp

Manual Installation

npm install -g firecrawl-mcp

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-firecrawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

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