firecrawl

name

firecrawl

description

Web scraping, site crawling, search, structured data extraction, and AI-powered research with Firecrawl CLI. Use when you need full page content as markdown, JS-rendered pages, anti-bot bypass, crawling entire documentation sites, extracting structured data with schemas, or deep web research. Prefer WebFetch for quick questions about a known URL. Prefer WebSearch for finding links without full content.

Firecrawl

When to Use What

Need	Tool	Why
Quick answer from a known URL	WebFetch	Free, fast, no API key needed
Find links/pages on a topic	WebSearch	Free, fast, returns snippets
Full page content as clean markdown	Firecrawl scrape	Handles JS rendering, anti-bot, better extraction
Scrape JS-heavy SPAs or paywalled sites	Firecrawl scrape	--wait-for, proxy support
Discover all URLs on a site	Firecrawl map	Sitemap + link discovery
Crawl entire docs/blog site	Firecrawl crawl	Recursive, depth control, path filtering
Search + get full page content	Firecrawl search	--scrape flag fetches each result
Extract structured data with schema	Firecrawl extract	LLM-powered, typed JSON output
Open-ended web research	Firecrawl agent	AI browses autonomously, multi-step reasoning

Commands

Command	Usage
/firecrawl:scrape	<url> [--only-main-content] [--format markdown,links]
/firecrawl:search	<query> [--limit N] [--scrape] [--tbs qdr:d]
/firecrawl:map	<url> [--search "filter"] [--limit N]
/firecrawl:crawl	<url> --wait [--limit N] [--max-depth N] [--include-paths "/api/*"]
/firecrawl:extract	<url> --prompt "..." [--schema '{...}']
/firecrawl:agent	"<prompt>" [--urls <urls>] [--wait] [--model spark-1-pro]

Prerequisites

1. API key: export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-your-key or npx firecrawl login
2. CLI: npm install -g firecrawl-cli (or use via npx firecrawl)
3. Get key from: https://firecrawl.dev

Credit Costs

Operation	Cost
Scrape	1 credit/page
Map	1 credit/call
Search	1 credit/result
Crawl	1 credit/page crawled
Extract/Agent	Varies (typically 5-50 credits)

Check https://firecrawl.dev/pricing for current rates.

Detailed References

For full flags and examples per command, see:

• references/scrape-reference.md
• references/search-reference.md
• references/map-reference.md
• references/crawl-reference.md
• references/extract-reference.md
• references/agent-reference.md