Claude Code How to use Firecrawl with Claude Code
You want Firecrawl inside Claude Code so it can research a topic across the web, audit a website's documentation, extract structured records from web pages, and trace an issue through technical sources — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.
Create your Firecrawl gateway
The gateway is the thing Claude Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Firecrawl tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.
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Create an Arcade account
Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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Create an MCP Gateway and select your Firecrawl tools
In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Firecrawl tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
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Copy your gateway URL
Every client below needs it.
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
Connect the gateway to Claude Code
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Add the gateway as a remote HTTP MCP server
claude mcp add arcade --transport http "<YOUR_ARCADE_GATEWAY_URL>"
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Verify it was added
claude mcp get arcade claude mcp list
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Try it out
Open Claude Code in your project and ask it to use one of your Firecrawl tools.
Full Claude Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13
Try these web research prompts
Claude Code can now act on your Firecrawl account. Click a prompt to copy it.
Set policy on CrawlWebsite, ExtractData, and CancelCrawl, and require approval before an agent starts a broad crawl or stops one in progress. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so untrusted page content cannot trigger those actions without a policy check.
