Firecrawl Web Scraping Tool

A powerful web scraping tool that uses the Firecrawl API to convert websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown and extract structured data.

Features

• Scrape: Extract content from a single URL as markdown, HTML, or with screenshots
• Crawl: Automatically discover and scrape all accessible subpages of a website
• Map: Get a list of all URLs from a website without scraping content (extremely fast)
• Search: Search the web and get full scraped content from results
• Extract: Use AI to extract structured data from pages with natural language prompts

Setup

1. Get an API key from firecrawl.dev
2. Set your API key as a secret:
   bashCopy

   enact env set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY <your-api-key> --secret --namespace enact
   

This stores your API key securely in your OS keyring (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or Linux Secret Service).

Usage Examples

Scrape a single page

enact run enact/firecrawl -a '{"url": "https://example.com", "action": "scrape"}'

Crawl an entire documentation site

enact run enact/firecrawl -a '{"url": "https://docs.example.com", "action": "crawl", "limit": 20}'

Map all URLs on a website

enact run enact/firecrawl -a '{"url": "https://example.com", "action": "map"}'

Search the web

enact run enact/firecrawl -a '{"url": "latest AI developments 2024", "action": "search", "limit": 5}'

Extract structured data with AI

enact run enact/firecrawl -a '{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com", "action": "extract", "prompt": "Extract the top 10 news headlines with their URLs"}'

Output

The tool returns JSON with:

• markdown: Clean, LLM-ready content
• metadata: Title, description, language, source URL
• extract: Structured data (for extract action)
• links: Discovered URLs (for map action)

API Features

Firecrawl handles the hard parts of web scraping:

• Anti-bot mechanisms
• Dynamic JavaScript content
• Proxies and rate limiting
• PDF and document parsing
• Screenshot capture