> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Search the web, scrape any page, and interact with it, all through one API.

export const AgentSetupButton = () => {
  const prompt = "Read and follow https://www.firecrawl.dev/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md";
  const writeClipboard = async text => {
    try {
      await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
      return true;
    } catch {
      const textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
      textarea.value = text;
      textarea.setAttribute("readonly", "");
      textarea.style.position = "fixed";
      textarea.style.top = "-9999px";
      document.body.appendChild(textarea);
      textarea.select();
      let copied = false;
      try {
        copied = document.execCommand("copy");
      } catch {
        copied = false;
      }
      document.body.removeChild(textarea);
      return copied;
    }
  };
  const [copied, setCopied] = useState(false);
  const [status, setStatus] = useState("");
  const timeoutRef = useRef(null);
  useEffect(() => () => window.clearTimeout(timeoutRef.current), []);
  const copyPrompt = async () => {
    const copied = await writeClipboard(prompt);
    if (copied) {
      window.clearTimeout(timeoutRef.current);
      setCopied(true);
      setStatus("Agent setup prompt copied to clipboard.");
      timeoutRef.current = window.setTimeout(() => {
        setCopied(false);
        setStatus("");
      }, 2000);
    } else {
      setCopied(false);
      setStatus("Could not copy the agent setup prompt.");
    }
  };
  const icon = copied ? <svg aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="16" height="16" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round">
      <path d="m20 6-11 11-5-5" />
    </svg> : <svg aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="16" height="16" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round">
      <rect width="14" height="14" x="8" y="8" rx="2" />
      <path d="M4 16c-1.1 0-2-.9-2-2V4c0-1.1.9-2 2-2h10c1.1 0 2 .9 2 2" />
    </svg>;
  return <div className="fc-agent-prompt not-prose">
      <button type="button" className={copied ? "fc-agent-prompt-button is-copied" : "fc-agent-prompt-button"} onClick={copyPrompt} aria-label={copied ? "Copied agent setup prompt" : "Setup for agents"}>
        {icon}
        <span>{copied ? "Copied" : "Setup for agents"}</span>
      </button>
      <span className="fc-sr-only" aria-live="polite">
        {status}
      </span>
    </div>;
};

## Get started

Connect over Streamable HTTP. The keyless server URL (Search, Scrape, and Parse; no credential required) is `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp`.

* Codex: `codex mcp add firecrawl --url https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp`
* Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp`
* Cursor or any JSON-config client: `{"mcpServers": {"firecrawl": {"url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"}}}`
* OpenCode (`opencode.json`): `{"mcp": {"firecrawl": {"type": "remote", "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", "enabled": true}}}`
* ChatGPT or Claude.ai: use the native Firecrawl connector — [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins?q=firecrawl) or [Claude](https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/firecrawl).

Both setup paths and API-key setup: [MCP Get Started](/mcp-server.md), [For Agents](/mcp-server/keyless.md), and [For Humans](/mcp-server/oauth.md).

### Build directly with the API

Scrape your first page now. No account or API key is required for this request.

```bash cURL theme={null}
# No API key needed to get started — add -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" for higher rate limits:
curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://firecrawl.dev",
    "formats": ["markdown", "html"]
  }'
```

Add an [API key](https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys) when you need higher limits. See the [Python SDK](/sdks/python), [Node SDK](/sdks/node), or [API reference](/api-reference/endpoint/scrape) to build it into your application.

## Other ways to get started

### Install the Firecrawl CLI

One command installs the Firecrawl CLI, authenticates in your browser, and adds skills to every detected coding agent.

```bash theme={null}
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser
```

<Note>
  Restart your coding agent after setup so it can discover the new skills. See
  [CLI](/sdks/cli) for the full setup.
</Note>

### Set up with an agent

Provide your agent with this Firecrawl setup prompt, or see [all MCP setup options](/mcp-server).

<AgentSetupButton />

<Note>
  **For AI agents:** Use [llms.txt](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt) for an index of the documentation, or [llms-full.txt](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms-full.txt) for the full text.
</Note>

### Build and test directly

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Get your API key" icon="key" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys">
    Create a free account for direct API access and higher limits
  </Card>

  <Card title="Try it in the Playground" icon="play" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://www.firecrawl.dev/playground">
    Test Firecrawl in the browser without writing code
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

***

## What can Firecrawl do?

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev#search">
    Search the web and get full page content from results
  </Card>

  <Card title="Scrape" icon="file-lines" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev#scrape">
    Extract content from any URL as markdown, HTML, or structured JSON
  </Card>

  <Card title="Interact" icon="hand-pointer" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev#interact">
    Continue working with any scraped page: click, fill forms, extract dynamic
    content
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Why Firecrawl?

* **LLM-ready output**: Clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and more.
* **Handles the hard stuff**: Proxies, anti-bot, JavaScript rendering, and dynamic content.
* **Reliable**: Built for production with high uptime and consistent results.
* **Fast**: Results in seconds, optimized for high throughput.
* **MCP Server**: Connect Firecrawl to any AI tool via the [Model Context Protocol](/mcp-server).

<div className="firecrawl-cta-box">
  <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "flex-start", gap: "8px", marginBottom: "8px" }}>
    <Icon icon="sack-dollar" color="#ff4d00" size={22} />

    <div className="firecrawl-cta-title" style={{ margin: 0 }}>
      <span style={{ color: "#ff4d00" }}>Bounty: 5,000 credit reward</span>
      <span style={{ fontWeight: 400 }}> for solid feedback on Firecrawl</span>
    </div>
  </div>

  <p className="firecrawl-cta-description">
    To qualify, complete a high-signal interview (thoughtful, concrete use cases, etc) with our Firecrawl Feedback Assistant. Only takes a few minutes, can be stopped at any time, and is both human/agent-friendly (just paste the link into your agentic harness!). New to Firecrawl? Your take still counts.
  </p>

  <a href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://www.firecrawl.dev/survey/dsag9?src=docs-introduction" className="firecrawl-cta-btn-primary firecrawl-cta-btn-inline">
    Start the interview
  </a>

  <p className="firecrawl-cta-description" style={{ fontSize: "12px", fontStyle: "italic", margin: "12px 0 0 0" }}>
    Include your email to be eligible. Interviews are reviewed for quality at the end of each week.
  </p>
</div>

***

## Search

Search the web and get full page content from results in one call. See the [Search feature docs](/features/search) for all options.

<CodeGroup>
  ```python Python theme={null}
  from firecrawl import Firecrawl

  firecrawl = Firecrawl(
    # No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    # api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY",
  )

  results = firecrawl.search(
      query="firecrawl",
      limit=3,
  )
  print(results)
  ```

  ```js Node theme={null}
  import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

  const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({
    // No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    // apiKey: "fc-YOUR-API-KEY",
  });

  const results = await firecrawl.search('firecrawl', {
    limit: 3,
    scrapeOptions: { formats: ['markdown'] }
  });
  console.log(results);
  ```

  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  # No API key needed to get started — add -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" for higher rate limits:
  curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
      "query": "firecrawl",
      "limit": 3
    }'
  ```

  ```bash CLI theme={null}
  # Search the web
  firecrawl search "firecrawl web scraping" --limit 5 --pretty
  ```
</CodeGroup>

<Accordion title="Response">
  SDKs will return the data object directly. cURL will return the complete payload.

  ```json JSON theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "data": {
      "web": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/",
          "title": "Firecrawl - The Web Data API for AI",
          "description": "The web crawling, scraping, and search API for AI. Built for scale. Firecrawl delivers the entire internet to AI agents and builders.",
          "position": 1
        },
        {
          "url": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl",
          "title": "mendableai/firecrawl: Turn entire websites into LLM-ready ... - GitHub",
          "description": "Firecrawl is an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown or structured data.",
          "position": 2
        },
        ...
      ],
      "images": [
        {
          "title": "Quickstart | Firecrawl",
          "imageUrl": "https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/firecrawl/logo/logo.png",
          "imageWidth": 5814,
          "imageHeight": 1200,
          "url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/",
          "position": 1
        },
        ...
      ],
      "news": [
        {
          "title": "Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees",
          "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/y-combinator-startup-firecrawl-is-ready-to-pay-1m-to-hire-three-ai-agents-as-employees/",
          "snippet": "It's now placed three new ads on YC's job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.",
          "date": "3 months ago",
          "position": 1
        },
        ...
      ]
    }
  }
  ```
</Accordion>

## Scrape

Scrape any URL and get its content in markdown, HTML, or other formats. See the [Scrape feature docs](/features/scrape) for all options.

<CodeGroup>
  ```python Python theme={null}
  from firecrawl import Firecrawl

  firecrawl = Firecrawl(
    # No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    # api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY",
  )

  # Scrape a website:
  doc = firecrawl.scrape("https://firecrawl.dev", formats=["markdown", "html"])
  print(doc)
  ```

  ```js Node theme={null}
  import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

  const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({
    // No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    // apiKey: "fc-YOUR-API-KEY",
  });

  // Scrape a website:
  const doc = await firecrawl.scrape('https://firecrawl.dev', { formats: ['markdown', 'html'] });
  console.log(doc);
  ```

  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  # No API key needed to get started — add -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" for higher rate limits:
  curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
      "url": "https://firecrawl.dev",
      "formats": ["markdown", "html"]
    }'
  ```

  ```bash CLI theme={null}
  # Scrape a URL and get markdown
  firecrawl https://firecrawl.dev

  # With multiple formats (returns JSON)
  firecrawl https://firecrawl.dev --format markdown,html,links --pretty
  ```
</CodeGroup>

<Accordion title="Response">
  SDKs will return the data object directly. cURL will return the payload exactly as shown below.

  ```json theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "data" : {
      "markdown": "Launch Week I is here! [See our Day 2 Release 🚀](https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/launch-week-i-day-2-doubled-rate-limits)[💥 Get 2 months free...",
      "html": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\" class=\"light\" style=\"color-scheme: light;\"><body class=\"__variable_36bd41 __variable_d7dc5d font-inter ...",
      "metadata": {
        "title": "Home - Firecrawl",
        "description": "Firecrawl crawls and converts any website into clean markdown.",
        "language": "en",
        "keywords": "Firecrawl,Markdown,Data,Mendable,Langchain",
        "robots": "follow, index",
        "ogTitle": "Firecrawl",
        "ogDescription": "Turn any website into LLM-ready data.",
        "ogUrl": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/",
        "ogImage": "https://www.firecrawl.dev/og.png?123",
        "ogLocaleAlternate": [],
        "ogSiteName": "Firecrawl",
        "sourceURL": "https://firecrawl.dev",
        "statusCode": 200,
        "contentType": "text/html"
      }
    }
  }
  ```
</Accordion>

## Interact

Scrape a page, then keep working with it: click buttons, fill forms, extract dynamic content, or navigate deeper. Describe what you want in plain English or write code for full control. See the [Interact feature docs](/features/interact) for all options.

<CodeGroup>
  ```python Python theme={null}
  from firecrawl import Firecrawl

  app = Firecrawl(
    # No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    # api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY",
  )

  # 1. Scrape Amazon's homepage
  result = app.scrape("https://www.amazon.com", formats=["markdown"])
  scrape_id = result.metadata.scrape_id

  # 2. Interact — search for a product and get its price
  app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max")
  response = app.interact(scrape_id, prompt="Click on the first result and tell me the price")
  print(response.output)

  # 3. Stop the session
  app.stop_interaction(scrape_id)
  ```

  ```js Node theme={null}
  import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';

  const app = new Firecrawl({
    // No API key needed to get started — add one for higher rate limits:
    // apiKey: 'fc-YOUR-API-KEY',
  });

  // 1. Scrape Amazon's homepage
  const result = await app.scrape('https://www.amazon.com', { formats: ['markdown'] });
  const scrapeId = result.metadata?.scrapeId;

  // 2. Interact — search for a product and get its price
  await app.interact(scrapeId, { prompt: 'Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max' });
  const response = await app.interact(scrapeId, { prompt: 'Click on the first result and tell me the price' });
  console.log(response.output);

  // 3. Stop the session
  await app.stopInteraction(scrapeId);
  ```

  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  # 1. Scrape Amazon's homepage
  # No API key needed to get started — add -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" for higher rate limits:
  RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"url": "https://www.amazon.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}')

  SCRAPE_ID=$(echo $RESPONSE | jq -r '.data.metadata.scrapeId')

  # 2. Interact — search for a product and get its price
  curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape/$SCRAPE_ID/interact" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"prompt": "Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max"}'

  curl -s -X POST "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape/$SCRAPE_ID/interact" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"prompt": "Click on the first result and tell me the price"}'

  # 3. Stop the session
  curl -s -X DELETE "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape/$SCRAPE_ID/interact"
  ```

  ```bash CLI theme={null}
  # 1. Scrape Amazon's homepage (scrape ID is saved automatically)
  firecrawl scrape https://www.amazon.com

  # 2. Interact — search for a product and get its price
  firecrawl interact "Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max"
  firecrawl interact "Click on the first result and tell me the price"

  # 3. Stop the session
  firecrawl interact stop
  ```
</CodeGroup>

<Accordion title="Response">
  ```json Response theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "cdpUrl": "wss://browser.firecrawl.dev/...",
    "liveViewUrl": "https://liveview.firecrawl.dev/...",
    "interactiveLiveViewUrl": "https://liveview.firecrawl.dev/...",
    "output": "The iPhone 16 Pro Max (256GB) is priced at $1,199.00.",
    "exitCode": 0,
    "killed": false
  }
  ```
</Accordion>

***

## More capabilities

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Agent" icon="robot" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/agent">
    Autonomous web data gathering powered by AI
  </Card>

  <Card title="Interact" icon="hand-pointer" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/interact">
    Click, fill forms, extract dynamic content
  </Card>

  <Card title="Webhooks" icon="webhook" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/webhooks">
    Async event delivery
  </Card>

  <Card title="Browser Sandbox" icon="browser" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/browser">
    Managed browser sessions for interactive workflows
  </Card>

  <Card title="Parse" icon="file-magnifying-glass" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/parse">
    Turn local PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, and more into Markdown or structured JSON
  </Card>

  <Card title="Map" icon="map" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/map">
    Discover all URLs on a website
  </Card>

  <Card title="Crawl" icon="spider-web" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/crawl">
    Recursively gather content from entire sites
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

***

## Resources

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="API Reference" icon="code" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-introduction">
    Complete API documentation with interactive examples
  </Card>

  <Card title="SDKs" icon="boxes-stacked" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/sdks/overview">
    Python, Node.js, CLI, and community SDKs
  </Card>

  <Card title="Open Source" icon="github" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/contributing/open-source-or-cloud">
    Self-host Firecrawl or contribute to the project
  </Card>

  <Card title="Integrations" icon="puzzle-piece" href="/web-api/iframe-proxy?url=https://docs.firecrawl.dev/developer-guides/llm-sdks-and-frameworks/openai">
    LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, and more
  </Card>
</CardGroup>