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firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

Best for

Feeding agents clean web data: crawl, scrape, and convert to markdown via API.

Avoid if

You need a full browser-automation agent rather than a data API.

About 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.

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

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

From the project's README

firecrawl is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 143k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in July 2026.

Install

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