Firecrawl API
Web Scraping · Artificial Intelligence
Turn entire websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown with a single API call for AI and RAG agents
Firecrawl API Highlights
Firecrawl API is best for AI developers, RAG pipeline engineers, and startups building web research agents
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Up to 50 concurrent requests on starter plans; custom enterprise concurrency
Nigeria
Ghana
KenyaFirecrawl is an API service designed specifically for AI engineers and autonomous agents that turns entire websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON. It handles all the complex modern web infrastructure that breaks traditional scrapers: JavaScript rendering, proxies, CAPTCHAs, dynamic rate limits, and nested sitemaps.
With endpoints for single-page scraping (`/scrape`), full recursive domain crawling (`/crawl`), site mapping (`/map`), and LLM schema extraction (`/extract`), Firecrawl is the leading data ingestion engine for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, company research agents, and automated market intelligence bots.
Firecrawl API Core Features & Capabilities
| Feature | Status | Description & Capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| Generative AI / Text Generation (LLM) | ✓ Supported | Provides native Generative AI / Text Generation (LLM) capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Named Entity Recognition (NER) | ✓ Supported | Provides native Named Entity Recognition (NER) capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Nigerian Language Support (Yoruba / Igbo / Hausa) | ✓ Supported | Provides native Nigerian Language Support (Yoruba / Igbo / Hausa) capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Natural Language Processing (NLP) | ✗ Not Supported | Natural Language Processing (NLP) is currently not supported by Firecrawl API. |
| Image Recognition & Computer Vision | ✗ Not Supported | Image Recognition & Computer Vision is currently not supported by Firecrawl API. |
| Speech / Audio Processing | ✗ Not Supported | Speech / Audio Processing is currently not supported by Firecrawl API. |
| Machine Translation & Language Detection | ✗ Not Supported | Machine Translation & Language Detection is currently not supported by Firecrawl API. |
| Sentiment & Emotion Analysis | ✗ Not Supported | Sentiment & Emotion Analysis is currently not supported by Firecrawl API. |
- Free tier includes 500 credits
- Starter plan at $16/month for 3,000 credits; Growth at $83/month for 100,000 credits
- Self-hostable open-source version available on GitHub
Required Access Documents for Firecrawl API
- Firecrawl AccountRequiredSign up at firecrawl.dev to receive API credentials
Different Firecrawl API use cases
- RAG Knowledge Base Ingestion:Crawl entire documentation websites and ingest structured markdown into vector stores.
- Competitor Market Intelligence:Extract competitor pricing, product specs, and updates automatically via schema extraction.
- AI Search & Research Agents:Equip LLM reasoning agents with real-time web reading capabilities without HTML bloat.