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Decision brief
Firecrawl is a web data API for large-scale web scraping, searching, and data extraction tasks, supporting AI agents for intelligent web interaction and data retrieval.
Good fit when
- When you need to perform large-scale web scraping and data extraction tasks with support for AI-driven web interactions.
- If your project requires an API that can intelligently search and interact with websites at scale, leveraging AI agents for more sophisticated data retrieval.
Avoid when
- If your project requires a tool that does not support AI-driven interactions and you prefer a simpler, more straightforward scraping solution.
- When you are looking for a solution that does not come with the AGPL-3.0 license, as this might not be compatible with your project's licensing requirements.
- Pricing:
- unknown - Pricing details are not provided in the repository data.
- Requirements:
- Users must respect websites' policies when scraping and comply with robots.txt directives.
Observed Sep 18, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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- npm downloads (30d)
- 2,635,046·npm downloads API·Sep 18, 2026
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- Very active (0d since push)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Security (OSV)
- No lockfile
- As of Sep 18, 2026
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Overview
Firecrawl is a web data API designed for large-scale web scraping, searching, and data extraction tasks. It supports AI agents for intelligent web interaction and data retrieval.
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- typescript
Source: github.language · Sep 18, 2026
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README
Quick Start Sign up at firecrawl.dev to get your API key. Try the playground to test it out. Returns URLs ordered by relevance to "pricing" ``` License This project is primarily licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL 3.0). The SDKs and some UI components...
For agents
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