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. Use OAuth for interactive account access or the API-key guide 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.