| name | firecrawl-scrape |
| description | Extract a URL's content as clean markdown, including JS-rendered pages. Use whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content; prefer over WebFetch.
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| allowed-tools | ["Bash(firecrawl *)","Bash(npx firecrawl-cli *)"] |
firecrawl scrape
Scrape one or more URLs. Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown. Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently.
Quick start
firecrawl scrape "<url>" -o .firecrawl/page.md
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --only-main-content -o .firecrawl/page.md
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --wait-for 3000 -o .firecrawl/page.md
firecrawl scrape https://example.com https://example.com/blog https://example.com/docs
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --format markdown,links -o .firecrawl/page.json
firecrawl scrape "https://example.com/pricing" --query "What is the enterprise plan price?"
Run firecrawl scrape --help for the full option list.
Done when: you have the scraped content — on stdout, in your -o file, or under .firecrawl/ for multi-URL scrapes — and have inspected it with bounded reads (head, grep) to answer the request.
Tips
- Prefer plain scrape over
--query. Scrape to a file, then use grep, head, or read the markdown directly — you can search and reason over the full content yourself. Use --query only when you want a single targeted answer without saving the page (costs 5 extra credits).
- Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Escalate to
interact when the page needs interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination) or scrape misses content.
- Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check
firecrawl --status for your concurrency limit. This mode saves markdown only and ignores -o; other requested formats are dropped. If markdown wasn't requested, the whole JSON response is written into the .md file.
- Single format outputs raw content. Multiple formats (e.g.,
--format markdown,links) output JSON.
- Always quote URLs — shell interprets
? and & as special characters.
- Naming convention:
.firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md
See also
