Firecrawl - The Web Data API for AI
The web crawling, scraping, and search API for AI. Built for scale. Firecrawl delivers the entire internet to AI agents and builders. Clean, structured, and ready to reason with.
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Firecrawl is a Web Data API that turns websites into LLM-ready data for AI developers and researchers.
🚀 Overview
Firecrawl extracts clean, structured data (Markdown, JSON, screenshots) from any website, handling JS-heavy sites. It solves unreliable scraping and formatting issues for AI apps. Built for LLM engineers, data scientists, developers. Created to simplify web data prep without infra hassles.
✨ Key Features
- Scrape: LLM-ready data from pages (Markdown/JSON/screenshots)
- Search: Web search with full content retrieval
- Agent: AI-prompted extraction
- Map: Discover site URLs
- Crawl: Entire sites to structured data
- Handles dynamic content, actions (click/scroll), caching/proxies
🛠 Tech Stack
Python/Node.js SDKs, CLI, cURL; open-source core; proprietary hosted scraper with anti-bot evasion.
👥 Who Is This For?
This project is useful for:
- AI devs powering apps with web data
- LLM engineers training models
- Researchers aggregating content
📸 Screenshots / Demo
- Playground: https://www.firecrawl.dev/playground
- GitHub: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
🔥 Project Status
- 🟢 Actively building
Last updated: 2026-02-21
❓ FAQ
Is this project free?
Freemium — 500 credits free; plans from $9/mo.
Is the source code available?
Yes — https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
Can I contribute?
Yes — GitHub PRs/issues.
What's coming next?
More file support, enterprise scaling.
📬 Contact & Links
- Website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- Discord: https://discord.gg/gSmWdAkdwd
- Email: help@firecrawl.com
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