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Scrape your first website

Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready data with a single API call.

Get your API key

Sign up and get your API key to start scraping

Try it in the Playground

Test the API instantly without writing any code
The Firecrawl skill is the fastest way for agents to discover and use Firecrawl. Without it, your agent will not know Firecrawl is available. 
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser
Restart your agent after installing the skill. See Skill + CLI for the full setup.
Or use the MCP Server to connect Firecrawl directly to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other AI tools.

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Make your first request

Copy the code below, replace fc-YOUR-API-KEY with your API key, and run it: 
curl -X POST 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape' \  -H 'Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR-API-KEY' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}' 
{  "success": true,  "data": {  "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples...",  "metadata": {  "title": "Example Domain",  "sourceURL": "https://example.com"  }  } }

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What can Firecrawl do?

Search

Search the web and get full page content from results

Scrape

Extract content from any URL as markdown, HTML, or structured JSON

Interact

Continue working with any scraped page — click, fill forms, extract dynamic content

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Why Firecrawl?

  • Search, scrape, and interact — three APIs that cover to gather web data reliably
  • LLM-ready output: Clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and more
  • Handles the hard stuff: Proxies, anti-bot, JavaScript rendering, and dynamic content
  • Reliable: Built for production with high uptime and consistent results
  • Fast: Results in seconds, optimized for high-throughput
  • MCP Server: Connect Firecrawl to any AI tool via the Model Context Protocol
Search the web and get full page content from results in one call. See the Search feature docs for all options. 
from firecrawl import Firecrawl  firecrawl = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY")  results = firecrawl.search(  query="firecrawl",  limit=3, ) print(results)
SDKs will return the data object directly. cURL will return the complete payload.
JSON
{  "success": true,  "data": {  "web": [  {  "url": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/",  "title": "Firecrawl - The Web Data API for AI",  "description": "The web crawling, scraping, and search API for AI. Built for scale. Firecrawl delivers the entire internet to AI agents and builders.",  "position": 1  },  {  "url": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl",  "title": "mendableai/firecrawl: Turn entire websites into LLM-ready ... - GitHub",  "description": "Firecrawl is an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown or structured data.",  "position": 2  },  ...  ],  "images": [  {  "title": "Quickstart | Firecrawl",  "imageUrl": "https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/firecrawl/logo/logo.png",  "imageWidth": 5814,  "imageHeight": 1200,  "url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/",  "position": 1  },  ...  ],  "news": [  {  "title": "Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees",  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/y-combinator-startup-firecrawl-is-ready-to-pay-1m-to-hire-three-ai-agents-as-employees/",  "snippet": "It's now placed three new ads on YC's job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.",  "date": "3 months ago",  "position": 1  },  ...  ]  } }

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Scrape

Scrape any URL and get its content in markdown, HTML, or other formats. See the Scrape feature docs for all options. 
from firecrawl import Firecrawl  firecrawl = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY")  # Scrape a website: doc = firecrawl.scrape("https://firecrawl.dev", formats=["markdown", "html"]) print(doc)
SDKs will return the data object directly. cURL will return the payload exactly as shown below.
{  "success": true,  "data" : {  "markdown": "Launch Week I is here! [See our Day 2 Release 🚀](https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/launch-week-i-day-2-doubled-rate-limits)[💥 Get 2 months free...",  "html": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\" class=\"light\" style=\"color-scheme: light;\"><body class=\"__variable_36bd41 __variable_d7dc5d font-inter ...",  "metadata": {  "title": "Home - Firecrawl",  "description": "Firecrawl crawls and converts any website into clean markdown.",  "language": "en",  "keywords": "Firecrawl,Markdown,Data,Mendable,Langchain",  "robots": "follow, index",  "ogTitle": "Firecrawl",  "ogDescription": "Turn any website into LLM-ready data.",  "ogUrl": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/",  "ogImage": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/og.png?123",  "ogLocaleAlternate": [],  "ogSiteName": "Firecrawl",  "sourceURL": "https://firecrawl.dev",  "statusCode": 200  }  } }

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Interact

Scrape a page, then keep working with it — click buttons, fill forms, extract dynamic content, or navigate deeper. Describe what you want in plain English or write code for full control. See the Interact feature docs for all options. 
from firecrawl import Firecrawl  app = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY")  # 1. Scrape Amazon's homepage result = app.scrape("https://www.amazon.com", formats=["markdown"]) scrape_id = result.metadata["scrapeId"]  # 2. Interact — search for a product and get its price app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max") response = app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Click on the first result and tell me the price") print(response.output)  # 3. Stop the session app.stop_interaction(scrape_id)
Response
{  "success": true,  "liveViewUrl": "https://liveview.firecrawl.dev/...",  "interactiveLiveViewUrl": "https://liveview.firecrawl.dev/...",  "output": "The iPhone 16 Pro Max (256GB) is priced at $1,199.00.",  "exitCode": 0,  "killed": false }

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More capabilities

Agent

Autonomous web data gathering powered by AI

Browser Sandbox

Managed browser sessions for interactive workflows

Map

Discover all URLs on a website

Crawl

Recursively crawl and scrape entire sites

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Resources

API Reference

Complete API documentation with interactive examples

SDKs

Python, Node.js, CLI, and community SDKs

Open Source

Self-host Firecrawl or contribute to the project

Integrations

LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, and more