Turns the web into clean markdown for the pipeline without me maintaining scrapers. The search endpoint is decent. Pricing scales badly for big crawls; we self-host for those.
Firecrawl
Context API for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a context API for AI systems and agents that search, scrape, map, crawl, and interact with the live web. It converts web sources into clean Markdown, JSON, screenshots, or other structured data.
The service is designed for developers and can connect to AI agents or MCP clients through its API, Python and Node.js libraries, CLI, or MCP. Its interaction feature lets users scrape a page and operate it using AI prompts or code.
Firecrawl offers a free starting option, and the site mentions two months free on annual plans. It is also open source, with a public GitHub repository.
Highlights
- Search the web and return full content from results
- Scrape websites into Markdown, JSON, and screenshots
- Crawl and map web content
- Interact with scraped pages using prompts or code
- Python, Node.js, cURL, CLI, and MCP access
Scraping that survives modern JS sites. Saved our RAG ingest.
MS
Matt Smirnov
1 month ago
4.0
API is clean. Rate limits bite on big crawls.
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