Set up crawl4ai-mcp-server in Claude Desktop

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🕷️ A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes Crawl4AI web scraping and crawling capabilities as tools for AI agents. Similar to Firecrawl's API but self-hosted and free. Perfect for integrating web scraping into your AI workflows with OpenAI Agents SDK, Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP-compatible tools.

01Configuration

# crawl4ai-mcp-server: no install method on record yet.

No runnable install method captured for this server yet, so a verified setup config can't be generated.

02Steps

Make sure Claude Desktop is installed and up to date.
Open claude_desktop_config.json and add the block above (merge into any existing mcpServers).
Provide any required API keys/credentials as environment variables.
Restart Claude Desktop and confirm crawl4ai-mcp-server’s tools appear.

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04Provenance

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Next step

Ship crawl4ai-mcp-server to your agents as a governed Loadout — config, scopes, and approval rules in one place.

Build a Loadout

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