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Firecrawl

Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥 observed · 2026-10-14

github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl · homepage · TypeScript · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-10-14

Health v2 · maintenance only

86/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 82
  • Longevity 65
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 9
  • age_days: 918
  • days_rel: 123
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 34

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

191248 stars · 10145 forks observed · 2026-10-14

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-21, confidence 0.97

Firecrawl is an open‑source web data API that can search, scrape, and interact with web pages at scale. It returns clean markdown, JSON, screenshots and supports actions like clicking and scrolling.

Use cases

  • Extract clean markdown from any website for feeding into LLMs
  • Search the web and retrieve full page content for knowledge‑base building
  • Automate form filling and button clicking on dynamic pages before scraping
  • Gather structured JSON data from web pages for data pipelines
  • Parse PDFs and DOCX files hosted online into text for analysis

When to choose

  • You need a fast, LLM‑ready web scraping service with built‑in proxy handling
  • Your application requires both search and scrape capabilities in a single API
  • You want to integrate web data extraction into AI agents or workflows

When to avoid

  • You require on‑premise scraping without any external service calls
  • Your use case involves heavy custom crawling logic beyond provided actions
  • You need a pure Python library without any external API dependencies

Facets

service · maturity active

search-engine web-scraping api-framework artificial-intelligence web-development python cloud markdown html-to-markdown llm-ready crawler headless-browser api agent-friendly data-engineering nodejs web-server

7 sources

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="firecrawl/firecrawl")

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