# firecrawl

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

## Facts
- **Category:** [Research & Data Agents](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/research-agents)
- **Type:** Infrastructure
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 159,652
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **License:** AGPL-3.0
- **Last repo activity:** 1 day ago (Aug 2, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://firecrawl.dev
- **Source code:** https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/firecrawl
- **Data verified:** July 2026

## 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._

## Install

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

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