Firecrawl
An API that scrapes, crawls, and searches the web and returns clean Markdown or JSON for LLMs. · Firecrawl · AI
Overview
Firecrawl converts web pages to LLM-ready text. The free plan is a monthly credit pool with no card.
Good fit
Use when an AI app needs clean web content without running your own scraper.
- RAG
- AI agents
- prototypes
Not a fit
Avoid for large crawls; 1,000 credits go fast.
- large crawls
Quickstart · 3 steps
- Sign up at firecrawl.dev.
- Copy your API key.
- Call /scrape with a URL.
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