firecrawl-hello-world

name	firecrawl-hello-world
description	Create a minimal working Firecrawl example that scrapes a page to markdown. Use when starting a new Firecrawl integration, testing your setup, or learning the scrape/crawl/map/extract API surface. Trigger with phrases like "firecrawl hello world", "firecrawl example", "firecrawl quick start", "simple firecrawl code".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit
version	1.11.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","firecrawl","api","testing"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code

Firecrawl Hello World

Overview

Four minimal examples covering Firecrawl's core endpoints: scrape (single page), crawl (multi-page), map (URL discovery), and extract (LLM structured data). Each is a standalone snippet you can run immediately.

Prerequisites

• @mendable/firecrawl-js installed (npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js)
• FIRECRAWL_API_KEY environment variable set

Instructions

Step 1: Single-Page Scrape

import FirecrawlApp from "@mendable/firecrawl-js";

const firecrawl = new FirecrawlApp({
  apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY!,
});

// Scrape one page — returns markdown, HTML, metadata, links
const result = await firecrawl.scrapeUrl("https://docs.firecrawl.dev", {
  formats: ["markdown"],
});

console.log("Title:", result.metadata?.title);
console.log("Markdown:", result.markdown?.substring(0, 500));

Step 2: Multi-Page Crawl

// Crawl a site recursively — follows links, respects robots.txt
const crawlResult = await firecrawl.crawlUrl("https://docs.firecrawl.dev", {
  : ,  
  : {
    : [],
  },
});

.();
 ( page  crawlResult. || []) {
  .();
}