cli-recipes

name	cli-recipes
description	This skill should be used when the user asks about "firecrawl CLI", "jina CLI", "firecrawl command line", "jina command line", "scrape from terminal", "search from shell", or needs ready-to-use CLI commands for web scraping and search.

Web Search CLI Recipes

CLI commands for Firecrawl and Jina — the two services with official CLIs.

Firecrawl CLI

Installation

npm install -g firecrawl-cli
# or run without install:
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest

Authentication

firecrawl login --browser    # Browser-based login
firecrawl login --api-key fc-YOUR_KEY  # Direct key
firecrawl view-config        # Show current auth/config
firecrawl logout             # Sign out

Scrape a Page

firecrawl https://example.com/page
firecrawl scrape https://example.com/page --format markdown,links
firecrawl scrape https://example.com/spa --wait-for 3000  # JS rendering
firecrawl scrape https://example.com --screenshot  # Capture screenshot
firecrawl scrape https://example.com -o output.md  # Save to file
firecrawl scrape https://example.com --json --pretty  # JSON output

Search the Web

firecrawl search "Next.js server components tutorial"
firecrawl search "React hooks" --limit 20
firecrawl search "TypeScript patterns" --scrape  # Search + scrape results
firecrawl search "AI news" --tbs qdr:d  # Last 24 hours
firecrawl search "tech startups" --location "San Francisco"

Crawl a Site

firecrawl crawl https://docs.example.com --wait --progress
firecrawl crawl https://docs.example.com --limit 50 --max-depth 3
firecrawl crawl https://docs.example.com --include-paths "/docs/*"
firecrawl crawl https://docs.example.com --exclude-paths "/blog/*"
firecrawl crawl JOB_ID  # Check existing crawl status

Map Site URLs

firecrawl map https://example.com
firecrawl map https://example.com --limit 200
firecrawl map https://example.com --allow-subdomains

Autonomous Agent

firecrawl agent "Find top 5 headless CMS and compare pricing"
firecrawl agent "Research React state management libraries" --wait
firecrawl agent "Find API rate limits" --urls https://docs.stripe.com --schema schema.json

Interact (live browser)

Drive dynamic pages with natural language or code — replaces the old firecrawl browser session flow:

firecrawl interact https://example.com --prompt "log in and open the dashboard"

Monitor Changes

Recurring scrapes with change detection:

firecrawl monitor create https://example.com/pricing
firecrawl monitor list

Developer Index Search

Search GitHub issues, PRs, READMEs, and docs:

firecrawl developer "nextjs hydration mismatch"

Useful Flags

Flag	Description
--json	Output as JSON
--pretty	Pretty-print JSON
-o FILE	Save output to file
--timing	Show request timing
--only-main-content	Strip boilerplate
--api-key KEY	Override API key

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Jina CLI

Installation

pip install jina-cli
# or
uv pip install jina-cli

Authentication

export JINA_API_KEY=jina_xxx

Read a Page

jina read https://example.com/page
jina read https://example.com --json  # Structured output

Search the Web

jina search "React hooks best practices"
jina search "React hooks" -n 10  # Number of results
jina search "AI news" --time d   # Past day (d/w/m)
jina search "tech" --gl us --hl en  # Geo/language targeting

Specialized Search

jina search "transformer models" --arxiv   # Search arXiv
jina search "financial analysis" --ssrn    # Search SSRN
jina search "UI components" --images       # Image search
jina search "Jina releases" --blog         # Jina blog

Text Processing

jina embed "text to embed"
jina rerank "query" < documents.txt
jina classify "product review text" --labels positive,negative,neutral
jina dedup < urls.txt  # Deduplicate

Utilities

jina screenshot https://example.com -o screenshot.png
jina screenshot https://example.com --full-page
jina bibtex "attention is all you need"
jina expand "machine learning optimization"
jina pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00001 --type figure,table
jina datetime https://example.com/article  # Guess publish date

Pipe Composability

Jina CLI follows Unix philosophy — pipe commands together:

# Search and rerank
jina search "transformer models" | jina rerank "efficient inference"

# Read multiple URLs
cat urls.txt | jina read

# Search and deduplicate
jina search "attention mechanism" | jina dedup

# Search, read, and save
jina search "React patterns" -n 5 | jina read > research.md

Local Mode (Apple Silicon)

Run embed, rerank, classify, and dedup locally without API key:

pip install jina-grep
jina grep serve start  # Start local embedding server
jina embed --local "hello world"
jina classify --local "text" --labels positive,negative

Caveat: jina-grep is not currently published on PyPI, so pip install jina-grep fails as of 2026-08 (upstream jina-cli docs give this same instruction; an npm package named jina-grep exists but is an empty placeholder). Check https://github.com/jina-ai/jina-grep-cli for the actual install method before relying on local mode.

Useful Flags

Flag	Description
--json	Structured JSON output
-n NUM	Number of results
--time d/w/m	Time filter (day/week/month)
--gl CODE	Geographic location
--local	Run locally (Apple Silicon)

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Cross-CLI Workflow Examples

Scrape and process content pipeline

# Use Firecrawl to find URLs, Jina to process
firecrawl map https://docs.example.com --json | \
  jq -r '.urls[]' | \
  head -10 | \
  while read url; do jina read "$url"; done > all_docs.md

Search with both engines and compare

firecrawl search "React server components" --json > firecrawl_results.json
jina search "React server components" --json > jina_results.json