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🔥 Firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥 The web context API to find sources, extract content, and turn it into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Open source and available as a hosted service.

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Why Firecrawl?

• Industry-leading reliability: Covers 96% of the web, including JS-heavy pages — no proxy headaches, just clean data (see benchmarks)
• Blazingly fast: P95 latency of 3.4s across millions of pages, built for real-time agents and dynamic apps
• LLM-ready output: Clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and more — spend fewer tokens, build better AI apps
• We handle the hard stuff: Rotating proxies, orchestration, rate limits, JS-blocked content, and more — zero configuration
• Agent ready: Connect Firecrawl to any AI agent or MCP client with a single command
• Media parsing: Parse and extract content from web-hosted PDFs, DOCX, and more
• Actions: Click, scroll, write, wait, and press before extracting content
• Open source: Developed transparently and collaboratively — join our community

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Feature Overview

Core Endpoints

| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [Search](#search) | Search the web and get full page content from results |
| [Scrape](#scrape) | Convert any URL to markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON |
| [Interact](#interact) | Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code |

More

| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [Agent](#agent) | Automated data gathering, just describe what you need |
| [Crawl](#crawl) | Scrape all URLs of a website with a single request |
| [Map](#map) | Discover all URLs on a website instantly |
| [Batch Scrape](#batch-scrape) | Scrape thousands of URLs asynchronously |

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Quick Start

Sign up at firecrawl.dev to get your API key. Try the playground to test it out.

Search

Search the web and get full content from results.

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

search_result = app.search("firecrawl", limit=5)

Node.js / cURL / CLI

Node.js

javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

const app = new Firecrawl({apiKey: "fc-YOUR_API_KEY"});

app.search("firecrawl", { limit: 5 })

cURL

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
  "query": "firecrawl",
  "limit": 5
}'

CLI

bash
firecrawl search "firecrawl" --limit 5

Output:

json
[
  {
    "url": "https://firecrawl.dev",
    "title": "Firecrawl",
    "markdown": "Turn websites into..."
  },
  {
    "url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev",
    "title": "Firecrawl Docs",
    "markdown": "# Getting Started..."
  }
]

Scrape

Get LLM-ready data from any website — markdown, JSON, screenshots, and more.

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

result = app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')

Node.js / cURL / CLI

Node.js

javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

const app = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: "fc-YOUR_API_KEY" });

app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')

cURL

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
  "url": "firecrawl.dev"
}'

CLI

bash
firecrawl scrape https://firecrawl.dev
firecrawl https://firecrawl.dev --only-main-content

Output:

# Firecrawl

Firecrawl helps AI systems search, scrape, and interact with the web.

## Features
- Search: Find information across the web
- Scrape: Clean data from any page
- Interact: Click, navigate, and operate pages
- Agent: Autonomous data gathering

Interact

Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code.

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

result = app.scrape("https://amazon.com")
scrape_id = result.metadata.scrape_id

app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Search for 'mechanical keyboard'")
app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Click the first result")

Node.js / cURL / CLI

Node.js

javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

const app = new Firecrawl({apiKey: "fc-YOUR_API_KEY"});

const result = await app.scrape("https://amazon.com");

await app.interact(result.metadata.scrapeId, {
  prompt: "Search for 'mechanical keyboard'"
});
await app.interact(result.metadata.scrapeId, {
  prompt: "Click the first result"
});

cURL

bash
# 1. Scrape the page
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"url": "https://amazon.com"}'

# 2. Interact with the page (use scrapeId from step 1)
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape/SCRAPE_ID/interact' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"prompt": "Search for mechanical keyboard"}'

CLI

bash
firecrawl scrape https://amazon.com
firecrawl interact exec --prompt "Search for 'mechanical keyboard'"
firecrawl interact exec --prompt "Click the first result"

Output:

json
{
  "success": true,
  "output": "Keyboard available at $100",
  "liveViewUrl": "https://liveview.firecrawl.dev/..."
}

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Power Your Agent

Connect Firecrawl to any AI agent or MCP client in minutes.

Skill

Give your agent easy access to real-time web data with one command.

bash
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser

Restart your agent after installing. Works with Claude Code, Antigravity, OpenCode, and more.

MCP

Connect any MCP-compatible client to the web in seconds.

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "firecrawl-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "fc-YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Agent Onboarding

Are you an AI agent? Fetch this skill to sign up your user, get an API key, and start building with Firecrawl.

bash
curl -s https://firecrawl.dev/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md

See the Skill + CLI documentation for all available commands. For MCP, see firecrawl-mcp-server.

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More Endpoints

Agent

The easiest way to get data from the web. Describe what you need, and our AI agent searches, navigates, and retrieves it. No URLs required.

Agent is the evolution of our /extract endpoint: faster, more reliable, and doesn't require you to know the URLs upfront.

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/agent' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "prompt": "Find the pricing plans for Notion"
  }'

Response:

json
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "result": "Notion offers the following pricing plans:\n\n1. Free - $0/month...\n2. Plus - $10/seat/month...\n3. Business - $18/seat/month...",
    "sources": ["https://www.notion.so/pricing"]
  }
}

Agent with Structured Output

Use a schema to get structured data:

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from typing import List, Optional

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

class Founder(BaseModel):
    name: str = Field(description="Full name of the founder")
    role: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="Role or position")

class FoundersSchema(BaseModel):
    founders: List[Founder] = Field(description="List of founders")

result = app.agent(
    prompt="Find the founders of Firecrawl",
    schema=FoundersSchema
)

print(result.data)

json
{
  "founders": [
    {"name": "Eric Ciarla", "role": "Co-founder"},
    {"name": "Nicolas Camara", "role": "Co-founder"},
    {"name": "Caleb Peffer", "role": "Co-founder"}
  ]
}

Agent with URLs (Optional)

Focus the agent on specific pages:

python
result = app.agent(
    urls=["https://docs.firecrawl.dev", "https://firecrawl.dev/pricing"],
    prompt="Compare the features and pricing information"
)

Model Selection

Choose between two models based on your needs:

| Model | Cost | Best For | |-------|------|----------| | spark-1-mini (default) | 60% cheaper | Most tasks | | spark-1-pro | Standard | Complex research, critical data gathering |

python
result = app.agent(
    prompt="Compare enterprise features across Firecrawl, Apify, and ScrapingBee",
    model="spark-1-pro"
)

When to use Pro:

• Comparing data across multiple websites
• Extracting from sites with complex navigation or auth
• Research tasks where the agent needs to explore multiple paths
• Critical data where accuracy is paramount

Learn more about Spark models in our Agent documentation.

Crawl

Crawl an entire website and get content from all pages.

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev",
    "limit": 100,
    "scrapeOptions": {
      "formats": ["markdown"]
    }
  }'

Returns a job ID:

json
{
  "success": true,
  "id": "123-456-789",
  "url": "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl/123-456-789"
}

Check Crawl Status

bash
curl -X GET 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl/123-456-789' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY'

json
{
  "status": "completed",
  "total": 50,
  "completed": 50,
  "creditsUsed": 50,
  "data": [
    {
      "markdown": "# Page Title\n\nContent...",
      "metadata": {"title": "Page Title", "sourceURL": "https://..."}
    }
  ]
}

Note: The [SDKs](#sdks) handle polling automatically for a better developer experience.

Map

Discover all URLs on a website instantly.

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/map' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url": "https://firecrawl.dev"}'

Response:

json
{
  "success": true,
  "links": [
    {"url": "https://firecrawl.dev", "title": "Firecrawl", "description": "Turn websites into LLM-ready data"},
    {"url": "https://firecrawl.dev/pricing", "title": "Pricing", "description": "Firecrawl pricing plans"},
    {"url": "https://firecrawl.dev/blog", "title": "Blog", "description": "Firecrawl blog"}
  ]
}

Map with Search

Find specific URLs within a site:

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

result = app.map("https://firecrawl.dev", search="pricing")
# Returns URLs ordered by relevance to "pricing"

Batch Scrape

Scrape multiple URLs at once:

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

job = app.batch_scrape([
    "https://firecrawl.dev",
    "https://docs.firecrawl.dev",
    "https://firecrawl.dev/pricing"
], formats=["markdown"])

for doc in job.data:
    print(doc.metadata.source_url)

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SDKs

Our SDKs provide a convenient way to use all Firecrawl features and automatically handle polling for async operations.

Python

Install the SDK:

bash
pip install firecrawl-py

python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Scrape a single URL
doc = app.scrape("https://firecrawl.dev", formats=["markdown"])
print(doc.markdown)

# Use the Agent for autonomous data gathering
result = app.agent(prompt="Find the founders of Stripe")
print(result.data)

# Crawl a website (automatically waits for completion)
docs = app.crawl("https://docs.firecrawl.dev", limit=50)
for doc in docs.data:
    print(doc.metadata.source_url, doc.markdown[:100])

# Search the web
results = app.search("best AI data tools 2024", limit=10)
print(results)

Node.js

Install the SDK:

bash
npm install firecrawl

javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

const app = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: 'fc-YOUR_API_KEY' });

// Scrape a single URL
const doc = await app.scrape('https://firecrawl.dev', { formats: ['markdown'] });
console.log(doc.markdown);

// Use the Agent for autonomous data gathering
const result = await app.agent({ prompt: 'Find the founders of Stripe' });
console.log(result.data);

// Crawl a website (automatically waits for completion)
const docs = await app.crawl('https://docs.firecrawl.dev', { limit: 50 });
docs.data.forEach(doc => {
    console.log(doc.metadata.sourceURL, doc.markdown.substring(0, 100));
});

// Search the web
const results = await app.search('best AI data tools 2024', { limit: 10 });
results.data.web.forEach(result => {
    console.log(`${result.title}: ${result.url}`);
});

Go

Install the SDK:

bash
go get github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/apps/go-sdk

```go package main

import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log"

firecrawl "github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/apps/go-sdk"
"github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/apps/go-sdk/option"
)

func main() {
// Create a client (reads FIRECRAWL_API_KEY from environment)
client, err := firecrawl.NewClient(option.WithAPIKey("fc-YOUR_API_KEY"))
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

ctx := context.Background()

// Scrape a single URL
doc, err := client.Scrape(ctx, "https://firecrawl.dev", &firecrawl.ScrapeOptions{
Formats: []string{"markdown"},
})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(doc.Markdown)

// Use the Agent for autonomous data gathering
agent, err := client.Agent(ctx, &firecrawl.AgentOptions{
Prompt: "Find the founders of Stripe",
})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(agent.Data)

// Crawl a website (automatically waits for completion)
job, err := client.Crawl(ctx, "https://docs.firecrawl.dev", &firecrawl.CrawlOpti

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