Social Science Research vs firecrawl
Social Science Research is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Felpix. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). firecrawl is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by firecrawl. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace felpix-studios/social-science-research | Listed Version: 1.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 9 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Not listed | Listed Version: 2.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 35 Stars (GitHub): 246 Not marked · First seen |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.9 Forks (GitHub): 35 Stars (GitHub): 246 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Social Science Research | firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 9 (worse) | 246 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 35 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-16 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | Remote server (mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-search) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 3 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 31 | 11 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/felpix-studios/social-science-research | github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 4 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-18 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Responded 2 days ago |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
Social Science Research
Social Science Research gives you the tools and workflows to assist with your research. Ideate on topics, perform literature reviews, analyze data, and have agents peer review your work. Based on Pedro Sant'Anna's workflow.
firecrawl
Web scraping and crawling powered by Firecrawl. Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape single pages, crawl entire sites, search the web, and extract structured information. Includes an AI agent for autonomous multi-source data gathering - just describe what you need and it finds, navigates, and extracts automatically.
How to run each
Social Science Research As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add felpix-studios/social-science-research
/plugin install social-science-research@felpix-researchfirecrawl As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install firecrawl@claude-plugins-officialCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only firecrawl has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: Social Science Research · What it can do: firecrawl · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.