Firecrawl CLI — lean reference

Check status: firecrawl --status (shows auth + credits + concurrency limit). Not installed? Run: npm install -g firecrawl-cli && firecrawl auth Auth commands: firecrawl login, firecrawl logout, firecrawl view-config

WebFetch vs Firecrawl

Try WebFetch first (free). Use Firecrawl when:

• Need web search (WebFetch can't search)
• JS-heavy SPA / marketing pages
• Full article content (WebFetch truncates long pages)
• WebFetch output < 1000 chars or looks incomplete

Escalation pattern