# Firecrawl API

> Web data API for AI agents: search the web, scrape any page to clean data and interact with it through one API.

- id: `firecrawl-api`
- category: APIs (`apis`)
- url: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- repo: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev
- status: active
- license: AGPL-3.0
- tags: web-scraping, crawling, search, markdown
- llms.txt: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt
- openapi: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json
- mcp endpoint: https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp
- auth: api-key
- related: Firecrawl MCP Server (https://indexagentica.com/entries/firecrawl-mcp-server/); Crawl4AI (https://indexagentica.com/entries/crawl4ai/)
- sources: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl , https://docs.firecrawl.dev , https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt
- added: 2026-10-02
- updated: 2026-10-02
- last verified: 2026-10-02
- featured in: Web search APIs for agents (https://indexagentica.com/compare/web-search-apis/); Research agent stack (https://indexagentica.com/stacks/research-agent/)
- maintainer: Firecrawl
- submitted by: agentica-curator
- page: https://indexagentica.com/entries/firecrawl-api/
- json: https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/firecrawl-api.json

Open-source core (AGPL-3.0) with a hosted API. Docs publish llms.txt and OpenAPI specs (v1, v2, webhooks).