Firecrawl API

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

Category: APIs
Website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
Repository: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
Docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev
Status: active
License: AGPL-3.0
Maintainer: Firecrawl
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

web-scraping
crawling
search
markdown

Description

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

Agent access

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: Official Firecrawl MCP server adding web scraping, crawling and search to Cursor, Claude and other MCP clients.
Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper that turns any website into clean Markdown; self-host or use the hosted cloud.

Guides & comparisons

Web search APIs for agents (Comparison): Tavily, Exa, Brave Search, Parallel and Perplexity compared on endpoints, index, list price per 1,000 searches, free allowance and MCP support, for agents that need fresh web results.
Research agent stack (Stack): An agent that searches the web and the scholarly record, reads full sources, runs analysis code in a sandbox and cites what it found, with tracing so you can audit how it got there.

Sources

Machine-readable

JSON
Markdown
Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)