MCP Web Search & Scrape in Gemini CLI - Firecrawl Docs

Add Firecrawl’s keyless Search, Scrape, and Parse tools to Google Gemini CLI through the hosted MCP server.

Quick setup

Add this to ~/.gemini/settings.json or your project’s .gemini/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Gemini CLI, run /mcp list, and confirm that firecrawl_search, firecrawl_scrape, and firecrawl_parse are available. Keyless access has limits shared by users on the same public IP. Sign in from an interactive client with For Humans, or add an API key for unattended use.

Try it

Use Firecrawl to search the web for "Gemini context window" and summarize the sources.

Scrape https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs and outline the sections.

Troubleshooting

Tools do not appear: restart Gemini CLI after editing settings.json; MCP servers load at startup.
Crawl or another tool is missing: keyless exposes exactly Search, Scrape, and Parse. Connect with OAuth or an API key for the broader tool surface.