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

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

firecrawl has 174k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 9.6k times. firecrawl is written mainly in TypeScript. It has been in active development since 2024. firecrawl is available under the AGPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are ai, ai-agents, ai-crawler, ai-scraping.

❓ Frequently asked questions

What is firecrawl?

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

Is firecrawl open source?

firecrawl is an open-source project. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Is firecrawl free?

Yes. firecrawl is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its AGPL-3.0 license is a strong copyleft: if you distribute a modified version — including offering it as a network service — your changes must be released under the same license.