Firecrawl is the most powerful web scraping MCP server — handling JavaScript-rendered pages, PDFs, sitemaps, and multi-page crawls that simpler tools can't manage.
Features:
- Scrape any URL to clean markdown, even JS-heavy SPAs
- Crawl entire websites with depth control and URL filtering
- Extract structured data using custom schemas
- Map website structure and discover all pages
- Deep Research agent — autonomously researches topics across multiple sources
- PDF text extraction with accurate layout preservation
- Sitemap parsing and discovery
- Smart rate limiting and anti-bot handling
- Batch scraping with concurrent processing
Why Firecrawl over Fetch/Puppeteer?
- Handles headless JS rendering automatically
- Built-in residential proxies for blocked sites
- Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown (not raw HTML)
- The Deep Research tool can tackle hour-long research tasks autonomously
Free tier: 500 credits/month. Plans from $16/month.
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