firecrawl/firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Firecrawl is the context API for AI agents. 🔥 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
Document parsing: Turn PDFs, DOCX, and other documents into clean Markdown or structured JSON
Actions: Click, scroll, write, wait, and press before extracting content
Open source: Developed transparently and collaboratively — join our community
## Feature Overview
Core Endpoints
| Feature | Description |
| Search | Search the web and get full page content from results |
| Scrape | Convert any URL to markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON |
| Interact | Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code |
More
| Feature | Description |
| Parse | Turn PDFs, DOCX, and other documents into clean Markdown or structured JSON |
| Agent | Automated data gathering, just describe what you need |
| Crawl | Scrape all URLs of a website with a single request |
| Map | Discover all URLs on a website instantly |
| Batch Scrape | Scrape thousands of URLs asynchronously |
| Monitor | Get notified when content on a website changes |
## 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(apikey="fc-YOURAPIKEY")
searchresult = app.search("firecrawl", limit=5)
Node.js / cURL / CLI
Node.js
javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';
const app = new Firecrawl({apiKey: "fc-YOURAPIKEY"});
app.search("firecrawl", { limit: 5 })
cURL
bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOURAPIKEY' \
-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 context from any website — markdown, JSON, screenshots, and more.
python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl
app = Firecrawl(apikey="fc-YOURAPIKEY")
result = app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')
Node.js / cURL / CLI
Node.js
javascript
import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';
const app = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: "fc-YOURAPIKEY" });
app.scrape('firecrawl.dev')
cURL
bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOURAPIKEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"url": "firecrawl.dev"
}'
CLI
bash
firecrawl scrape https://firecrawl.dev