---
title: "firecrawl"
type: "tool"
slug: "firecrawl-firecrawl"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl"
github_url: "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl"
homepage_url: "https://firecrawl.dev"
stars: 147117
forks: 8453
primary_language: "TypeScript"
license: "AGPL-3.0"
categories: ["data-retrieval", "ai-agents"]
tags: ["html-to-markdown", "llm", "ai-search", "ai-scraping", "crawler", "ai-agents", "ai-crawler", "data-extraction"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:56:47.146373+00:00"
---

# firecrawl

> The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

Firecrawl is an open-source web context API aimed at finding sources, extracting content, and converting it into clean Markdown or structured data. It focuses on reliability, speed, and LLM-ready output formats.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- Homepage: https://firecrawl.dev
- Stars: 147,117 · Forks: 8,453 · Open issues: 387 · Watchers: 390
- Primary language: TypeScript
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-07T13:17:45+00:00

## Categories

- [Data & Retrieval](/categories/data-retrieval.md)
- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)

## Tags

html-to-markdown, llm, ai-search, ai-scraping, crawler, ai-agents, ai-crawler, data-extraction

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## README (excerpt)

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---

# **🔥 Firecrawl**

**The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥** The web context API to find sources, extract content, and turn it into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Open source and available as a [hosted service](https://firecrawl.dev/?ref=github).

_Pst. Hey, you, join our stargazers :)_

<a href="https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl">
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## Why Firecrawl?

- **Industry-leading reliability**: Covers 96% of the web, including JS-heavy pages — no proxy headaches, just clean data ([see benchmarks](https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/the-worlds-best-web-data-api-v25))
- **Blazingly fast**: P95 latency of 3.4s across millions of pages, built for real-time agents and dynamic apps
- **LLM-ready output**: Clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and more — spend fewer tokens, build better AI apps
- **We handle the hard stuff**: Rotating proxies, orchestration, rate limits, JS-blocked content, and more — zero configuration
- **Agent ready**: Connect Firecrawl to any AI agent or MCP client with a single command
- **Media parsing**: Parse and extract content from web-hosted PDFs, DOCX, and more
- **Actions**: Click, scroll, write, wait, and press before extracting content
- **Open source**: Developed transparently and collaboratively — [join our community](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl)

---

## Feature Overview

**Core Endpoints**

| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [**Search**](#search) | Search the web and get full page content from results |
| [**Scrape**](#scrape) | Convert any URL to markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON |
| [**Interact**](#interact) | Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code |

**More**

| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [**Agent**](#agent) | Automated data gathering, just describe what you need |
| [**Crawl**](#crawl) | Scrape all URLs of a website with a single request |
| [**Map**](#map) | Discover all URLs on a website instantly |
| [**Batch Scrape**](#batch-scrape) | Scrape thousands of URLs asynchronously |

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## Quick Start

Sign up at [firecrawl.dev](https://firecrawl.dev) to get your API key. Try the [playground](https://firecrawl.dev/playground) to test it out.

### Search

Search the web and get full content from results.

```python
from firecrawl import Firecrawl

a
```

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl`](/api/graphcanon/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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