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Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready structured data

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npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js

Firecrawl homepage, captured September 2026

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl crawls, scrapes and extracts web pages into markdown or JSON that AI agents can consume directly, handling JavaScript rendering, proxies and rate limits. A single API call replaces a fragile homegrown scraping stack. The core engine is open source and self-hostable.

Features

  1. Scrape any page into markdown or JSON

    A single call returns a page as markdown, structured JSON or a screenshot, handling the rendering and cleanup that usually breaks a homegrown scraper.

  2. Crawl whole sites with depth and filters

    Crawl follows links across a site with configurable depth and filtering, and Map returns a site's URLs, so you can pull a documentation set or a catalog without hand-listing pages.

  3. Search and interact endpoints

    Search queries the web and returns full page content rather than just links, and Interact scrapes a page and then acts on it using AI prompts or code for flows behind a click.

  4. Parses PDFs, DOCX and HTML documents

    Document parsing covers PDF, DOCX and HTML files, which keeps file-based sources in the same pipeline as web pages instead of a second tool.

  5. SDKs for six languages plus MCP

    Official SDKs cover Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, Java and Elixir on top of the REST API, and an MCP server connects Firecrawl to tools such as Cursor and Claude.

Use cases

  • Developer building a RAG pipeline

    Turn a documentation site into clean markdown with one crawl call rather than maintaining selectors that break on every redesign.

  • AI startup team

    Give an agent live web access through the search and scrape endpoints, and keep costs visible through the per-page credit model.

  • Growth or research analyst

    Collect competitor pricing pages on a schedule and get structured JSON back that drops straight into a spreadsheet or warehouse.

Strengths vs alternatives

  • Why it stands out

    Raised an oversubscribed $14.5M Series A in August 2025 with 350,000+ registered developers and customers including Zapier, Shopify and Replit.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Firecrawl?

Firecrawl is an API that turns websites into data an LLM can use. It scrapes pages into markdown or JSON, crawls entire sites, maps URLs, searches the web with full content, parses PDF and DOCX files, and handles the rendering and blocking problems that usually sink a homemade scraper.

How much does Firecrawl cost?

There is a free tier with 1,000 credits a month. As of September 2026 the pricing page lists Hobby at 16 dollars a month for 5,000 credits, Standard at 83 dollars for 100,000, Growth at 333 dollars for 500,000 and Scale at 599 dollars for 1,000,000, all billed annually, with Enterprise custom. One credit covers one page on a basic scrape, crawl or map.

Can I self-host it, and how do I start?

The core engine is open source on GitHub and can be self-hosted, and the hosted API removes the need to run proxies and browsers yourself. To start in JavaScript, install the SDK with npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js, or use pip install firecrawl-py for Python. Official SDKs also cover Go, Rust, Java and Elixir.

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