filesystem vs crawl4ai-mcp-server

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	filesystem by modelcontextprotocol	crawl4ai-mcp-server by sadiuysal
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 85
30d uses	—	—
Score	77	46
Official	✓	—
Categories	File SystemDeveloper ToolsProductivity	Web ScrapingDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	3 mo ago

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Summary

A lightweight MCP server exposing Crawl4AI web scraping tools for AI agents with Docker support.

filesystem · Use cases

Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Use cases

Research assistants gathering information from multiple web pages
Content analysis tools extracting structured data from websites
AI agents that need to browse and understand web content as part of their workflow

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Install

Quick Start with Docker (Recommended)

# Pull pre-built image
docker pull uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server:latest

# Test the installation
python test-config.py

Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server.git
cd crawl4ai-mcp-server
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m playwright install chromium

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawl4ai-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "--rm", "-i",
        "--volume", "/tmp/crawl4ai-crawls:/app/crawls",
        "uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CRAWL4AI_MCP_LOG": "INFO"
      }
    }
  }
}

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