The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.
Feeding agents clean web data: crawl, scrape, and convert to markdown via API.
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About firecrawl #
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. The web context API to find sources, extract content, and turn it into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Open source and available as a hosted service.
Restart your agent after installing. Works with Claude Code, Antigravity, OpenCode, and more.
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firecrawl is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 171k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.
npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser
firecrawl vs. the alternatives #
| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawlthis listing | 171k | TypeScript | AGPL-3.0 | Open source |
| Scrapling | 76k | Python | BSD-3-Clause | Open source |
| TrendRadar | 62k | Python | GPL-3.0 | Open source |
| BettaFish | 42k | Python | GPL-2.0 | Open source |
| khoj | 37k | Python | AGPL-3.0 | Open source |
| storm | 31k | Python | MIT | Open source |