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    {
      "Title": "firecrawl_search.limit has been unconstrained since the search tool was introduced",
      "Excerpt": "## Describe the Bug\n\nThe `firecrawl_search` MCP tool advertises `limit` as an unconstrained JSON\n`number`, but the Search API accepts only an integer from 1 through 100. MCP\nclients therefore accept values that the runtime rejects downstream.\n\nI found this while testing Firecrawl's MCP surface with an internal agent\ncompatibility system at Bottomless. The reproduction is model-free and\nread-only.\n\n## To Reproduce\n\nThe current `tools/list` schema contains:\n\n```json\n{\"limit\":{\"type\":\"number\"}}\n```",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/376",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-19T22:01:40.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "firecrawl_scrape: published inputSchema declares jsonOptions.schema as an object that admits no keys, breaking JSON extraction for schema-validating MCP clients",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe `inputSchema` that `firecrawl-mcp` publishes via `tools/list` declares\n`firecrawl_scrape`'s `jsonOptions.schema` field as:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"type\": \"object\",\n  \"propertyNames\": { \"type\": \"string\" },\n  \"additionalProperties\": false\n}\n```\n\nThere is no `properties` declaration, so under JSON Schema semantics this\naccepts **only the empty object**. But this field is where callers pass an\narbitrary JSON Schema describing the extraction output — any legitimate value\nnecessarily contains ke",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/373",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-18T01:38:07.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Feature Suggestion: Optional token metering & paid API key support via `neuforge-pay`",
      "Excerpt": "Hi @firecrawl,\n\nLove the work on `firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server`! As usage grows across AI agent frameworks, server compute costs can start adding up quickly. We've also seen developers report that their autonomous agents accidentally burn through thousands of dollars in a single session because traditional payment rails lack built-in agent guardrails.\n\nWould you be open to adding an optional usage metering & billing decorator using `neuforge-pay`? It acts as a proactive **Spend Firewall** and ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/370",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T17:30:01.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "README: keyless tool list and `formats` object syntax both disagree with v3.23.3 behavior",
      "Excerpt": "Two spots in `README.md` on `main` describe behavior that the current code does not implement. Both were hit while setting up the hosted endpoint, and both cost some debugging time, so filing them together.\n\nVerified against `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` on 2026-08-06, which reports `serverInfo: {\"name\":\"firecrawl-fastmcp\",\"version\":\"3.23.3\"}` — the same version as `package.json` on `main`, so this is not a stale deployment.\n\n---\n\n### 1. Keyless tool list says `interact`, but the endpoint s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/357",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-06T07:50:55.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Gemini Spark custom connected apps: OAuth Dynamic Client Registration fails — flow asks for static Client ID/Secret",
      "Excerpt": "**Describe the bug**\n\nConnecting the hosted Firecrawl MCP server as a *custom connected app* inside **Gemini Spark** (gemini.google.com → Settings & help → Connected Apps → \"Custom apps for Spark\" → Add a custom app) fails with:\n\n> \"Automatic registration with this server failed. Please enter the OAuth client ID and client secret to complete the connection.\"\n\nGemini's OAuth client attempts Dynamic Client Registration against Firecrawl's advertised `registration_endpoint`, the registration fails,",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/345",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T18:48:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    {
      "Title": "firecrawl_research_search_papers returns 404 when using self-hosted Firecrawl",
      "Excerpt": "I'm using a self-hosted Firecrawl service, and most MCP search tools are working as expected. However, the firecrawl_research_search_papers tool consistently fails.\n\n**The error I receive is:**\n\nTool 'firecrawl_research_search_papers' execution failed:\n\nRequest failed with status code 404\n\n**Environment**\n\nFirecrawl: Self-hosted\nMCP Server  : \n```\ncommand: \"npx\"\n    args:\n      - \"-y\"\n      - \"firecrawl-mcp\"\n```\n\n**Expected Behavior**\n\nThe firecrawl_research_search_papers tool should execute suc",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/341",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-29T14:34:31.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    },
    {
      "Title": "`firecrawl-build` marks `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY` as required, but keyless execution is allowed",
      "Excerpt": "Hi team - I was using Firecrawl through Codex.\n\nThe firecrawl-build skill declares:\ninputs:\n  - name: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY\n  - ...\n    **required: true**\n\nBased on that, the agent-generated script initially treated the API key as mandatory and stopped when FIRECRAWL_API_KEY was not set.\nBut later, the agent removed its own hard requirement, retried the same v2 /scrape flow without the auth header, and the run succeeded through the available keyless path.\nThat created some confusion for implementati",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/327",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-23T10:17:45.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "The `firecrawl_feedback` returned 400 INVALID_BODY for search feedback",
      "Excerpt": "Hello,\nI was using Firecrawl’s MCP through Codex and noticed that the agent attempted to submit feedback three times. All three calls failed with the same error.\n\n### Tool call\n\n```json\n{\n  \"endpoint\": \"search\",\n  \"jobId\": \"019f8a0a-a559-709b-b4b1-cb76efe17797\",\n  \"rating\": \"bad\",\n  \"issues\": [\"no_results\"],\n  \"note\": \"No useful results for batch scrape pricing query.\"\n}\n```\n\n### Response\n\n```json\n[\n  {\n    \"type\": \"text\",\n    \"text\": \"{\\\"success\\\":false,\\\"status\\\":400,\\\"feedbackErrorCode\\\":\\\"IN",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/326",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-23T09:52:45.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "132 parameters have no description — likely hurting agent tool-selection accuracy",
      "Excerpt": "Hi! I maintain [mcpgrade](https://github.com/TengByte/mcpgrade), an open-source scorecard\nfor MCP server agent-usability, and recently benchmarked 36 popular servers\n([results](https://tengli.dev/posts/mcp-servers-failing-agents.html)). I re-verified against\nfirecrawl-mcp 3.22.4 today before filing this.\n\nThe headline: **132 of your parameters ship with no description** — `url`, `formats`,\n`jsonOptions`, `queryOptions` on `firecrawl_scrape`, and so on across the catalog. The model\ngets a name an",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/325",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-22T07:10:28.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "firecrawl_search declares readOnlyHint: true but accepts scrapeOptions.actions (click/write/executeJavascript)",
      "Excerpt": "Hello, I maintain [actlint](https://github.com/formael/actlint), a static linter that checks MCP tool annotations against what their input schemas allow.\n\n### The observation\n\nOn `firecrawl-mcp@3.22.3`, `firecrawl_search` declares `readOnlyHint: true`, but its input schema includes `scrapeOptions.actions` with action types `click`, `write`, `press`, and `executeJavascript`. As declared, the tool can fill and submit forms and run arbitrary JS on the pages it visits, while carrying the hint that l",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/311",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-12T17:54:57.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Tool descriptions embed usage essays (~18k tokens of definitions per session) while 24/26 tools have undescribed parameters",
      "Excerpt": "The server's 26 tool definitions cost **~18,511 tokens** (tiktoken cl100k) at `tools/list` — paid by every session up front. The bulk is long-form description sections (`firecrawl_scrape` ~1201 tokens of description; \"Usage Example\", \"CRITICAL - Format Selection\", \"Common mistakes\"...). That's documentation, and models are good at *reading docs on demand* — but it's being paid per-session as selection metadata. At the same time, 24 of 26 tools declare parameters with **no** `description`, so the",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/309",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-10T04:14:26.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    },
    {
      "Title": "Arbitrary local file read via firecrawl_parse (no path confinement) in firecrawl-mcp",
      "Excerpt": "reported via email on 5 June 2026 - no response:\n\nThe firecrawl_parse tool takes filePath as z.string().min(1) with no confinement and reads it directly: path.resolve(filePath) then readFile(absPath) (src/index.ts ~L1722), uploading the bytes to ${FIRECRAWL_API_URL}/v2/parse and returning the parsed content to the caller. No base-directory check, no rejection of absolute paths or ../. The tool is registered in the standard self-hosted config (CLOUD_SERVICE != 'true', FIRECRAWL_API_URL set).\n\n```",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/306",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-08T14:32:27.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    },
    {
      "Title": "firecrawl local network error cannot accept",
      "Excerpt": "trying using firecrawl mcp for local network server.\nself hosted firecrawl installed in my NAS and access by local network \nsetting FIRECRAWL_API_URL to http://192.x.x.x:3002 (port used to 3000 change to 3002)\nand it error reject by installer\n\nusing npx to install\n\nenv HTTP_STREAMABLE_SERVER=true FIRECRAWL_API_URL=\"http://192.x.x.x:3002\" npx -y firecrawl-mcp",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/284",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-22T02:21:12.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "MCP tool descriptions teach models the wrong calling convention, causing systematic tool-call failures",
      "Excerpt": "Some models using Firecrawl MCP call the tools using incorrect format e.g.\n\n```\n'arguments': '{\"name\":\"firecrawl_search\",\"arguments\":{\"query\":\"My search query\", \"limit\":5}}'\n```\n\nwhich causes an error:\n\n```\n\"MCP error -32602: Tool 'firecrawl_search' parameter validation failed: query: Invalid input: expected string, received undefined.\n```\n\nA correct way to call the tool is to use flat arguments, matching `input_schema` directly.\n\n```\n'arguments': '{\"query\":\"My search query\", \"limit\":5}'\n```\n\nUp",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/279",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-16T14:05:17.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "CLI metadata flags require FIRECRAWL_API_KEY instead of printing help/version",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe published `firecrawl-mcp@3.20.2` CLI validates Firecrawl configuration before handling top-level metadata flags. With `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY` and `FIRECRAWL_API_URL` unset, `firecrawl-mcp --help`, `firecrawl-mcp --version`, and an unknown flag all fail with the same runtime configuration error.\n\nThis makes it impossible to inspect usage or the installed package version without already having Firecrawl credentials configured.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nOn Windows PowerShell:\n\n```powershell\nmkd",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/256",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-08T09:20:44.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "stdio: every tool call returns \"Unauthorized\" in 3.18.0+ with FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (regression from 3.17.0)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nSince the 3.18.0 → 3.19.1 burst released on 2026-05-28 (~02:09–02:19 UTC), every tool call over the **stdio** transport fails with:\n\n```\nTool 'firecrawl_search' execution failed: Unauthorized: API key is required when not using a self-hosted instance\n```\n\n…even when `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY` is properly set in the env block, which is the exact configuration documented in the README for stdio. 3.17.0 (the previous npm `latest`, published 2026-05-17) works with the same env and the same comm",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/246",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-28T11:57:45.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Server crashes with \"Server does not support completions\" error on startup",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n  The firecrawl-mcp server fails to start with an error about unsupported completions capability, preventing it from connecting as an\n  MCP server in Claude Code/Claude Desktop.\n\n  ## Environment\n  - **Package**: `firecrawl-mcp` (installed via `npx -y firecrawl-mcp`)\n  - **Node version**: v25.2.0\n  - **Platform**: macOS (Darwin 25.1.0)\n  - **MCP Client**: Claude Code CLI\n  - **Installation method**: npx\n\n  ## Steps to Reproduce\n  1. Configure MCP server:\n     ```bash\n     claude m",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/133",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-11-14T15:01:41.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 13,
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    {
      "Title": "Using local self-hosted Firecrawl instance is broken since v2.0.0",
      "Excerpt": "So far I was using the MCP server with a local self-hosted Firecrawl instance (Docker) and it worked fine.\n\nToday I’ve noticed that the client now suddenly demands the FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to be set. That shouldn’t be necessary when FIRECRAWL_API_URL is set.\n\nWhen setting a fake API Key, the MCP server only returns 404 errors. I suppose that is because the self-hosted instance isn’t used at all as soon as an API key is set. It seems to entirely ignore FIRECRAWL_API_URL in that case.\n\nCan someone co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/93",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-08-25T22:06:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Client Closed or Failed to create on Windows 11",
      "Excerpt": "![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f5c4e56-16ab-4f45-8bda-9e8b293cc962)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-04-05T15:49:14.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Not working on Cursor 0.47.8",
      "Excerpt": "The latest version of cursor no longer has the add MCP dialogue box. Instead it takes you directly to `mcp.json`.\n\nAdding this to the json, substituting my API key adds the MCP server to the MCP server list in cursor settings, but the firecrawl MCP server will not initialize properly.\n\n```\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"firecrawl-mcp-server\": {\n      \"command\": \"env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=my-api-key npx\",\n      \"args\": [\"-y\", \"firecrawl-mcp\"]\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nI see this in the list (edited to remove my api",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-03-22T21:35:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP Integration Issue: \"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'status')\" Error When Calling firecrawl-mcp Tool from Cursor",
      "Excerpt": "MCP Integration Issue: \"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'status')\" Error When Calling firecrawl-mcp Tool from Cursor\n\nDescription\nEnvironment Information\nOperating System: Windows\nLocal firecrawl version: v1.6.0\nfirecrawl-mcp version: 1.5.0\nCursor version: 0.47.5\n\nProblem Description\nI have successfully deployed firecrawl service locally using Docker Compose, and the API works normally when tested with curl. However, when I try to call firecrawl tools through Cursor's MCP service, I",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-03-15T06:04:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "Running cursor on windows but working with wsl",
      "Excerpt": "Please write a guide about how to configure this when running cursor on windows 11 and using WSL distro on it.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-02-28T12:59:13.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Initialization problem on custom client",
      "Excerpt": "Hi, I'm working on custom client and using with stdio.\n\n`            server_params = StdioServerParameters(\n                command=self.server_config.command,\n                args=self.server_config.args,\n                env=self.server_config.env,\n            )\n\n            stdio_transport = await self.exit_stack.enter_async_context(\n                stdio_client(server_params)\n            )\n            self.stdio, self.write = stdio_transport\n            session = await self.exit_stack.enter_a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-02-27T13:47:57.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "No Tools Found",
      "Excerpt": "Confirm , Command is: `env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-blah-blah-blah-my-api-key npx -y firecrawl-mcp` in total \n\nWhere do i find the logs?",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-02-21T17:41:26.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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