Firecrawl

The LLM-Ready Web Scraper: Turn Websites into Markdown

Firecrawl is the industry-standard tool for turning entire websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown. It handles all the 'messy' parts of web scraping—including JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot bypass—automatically. Designed specifically for AI developers, it can crawl entire domains and output structured data that is perfectly formatted for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) or fine-tuning. It acts as the bridge between the unstructured web and the structured needs of modern AI agents.

QUICK TIPS

1 Use the 'Scrape' endpoint for single pages and 'Crawl' for entire domains

2 Enable 'Wait for Selector' for sites that load content dynamically via JavaScript

3 Leverage the markdown output to significantly reduce token usage in your LLM prompts

4 Check the 'Smart Filtering' options to remove headers, footers, and nav menus automatically

5 Combine Firecrawl with Perplexity or Gemini for a powerful real-time research agent

RESOURCES & SETUP

Firecrawl API Quickstart ↗

How to start crawling and scraping in under 5 minutes.

Self-Hosting Guide ↗

Deploy Firecrawl on your own infrastructure using Docker.

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USE CASE EXAMPLES

Building a RAG Knowledge Base

Scraping a company's entire documentation site to power a customer support AI.

STEPS:

Provide the documentation root URL to the /crawl endpoint
Receive clean markdown files for every page
Upsert the markdown into your vector database for RAG

Real-Time Competitor Monitoring

Automatically scraping competitor pricing pages and summarizing changes.

STEPS:

Set up a recurring crawl of competitor URLs
Pass the markdown output to an LLM to identify changes
Receive a structured report of pricing updates

PRICING

Freemium Free tier available

Free tier includes limited features. Paid plans unlock full access, higher usage limits, and commercial usage rights.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is Firecrawl free?

Firecrawl offers a free tier with limited features, plus paid plans for advanced capabilities and higher usage limits.

What can I do with Firecrawl?

Firecrawl is designed for Turning complex websites into clean markdown for RAG, Crawling entire domains for AI training data, Bypassing anti-bot protections for data extraction. Firecrawl is the industry-standard tool for turning entire websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown. Key strengths include LLM-Ready Output: Automatically converts HTML to clean markdown and Smart Crawling: Recursively crawls entire sites with one command.

How do I get started with Firecrawl?

Sign up at firecrawl.dev to get an API key or clone the repo from GitHub to self-host. Use the simple /crawl endpoint to turn any URL into markdown. For developers, use the Python or Node.js SDKs to integrate it directly into your AI agent's workflow...

Is Firecrawl open source?

Yes, Firecrawl is open source. You can access the source code on GitHub at https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl, contribute to development, and deploy it on your own infrastructure.