Firecrawl Search the Web

Mode and routing

• Use run with a nonempty query. sources supports web, news, images, alexandria; leave omitted defaults to the server.
• scrapeOptions optionally fetches result-page content. Without it, return search information only. JSON extraction can be configured inside scrapeOptions.formats.
• categories supports github, research, pdf, developer, gov; developer/gov must be used alone. research filters academic websites; it is not the separate paper-index API.
• Use includeDomains OR excludeDomains, never both. tbs controls time filtering. Alexandria options discover tool contracts; this skill does not execute those tools.
• Search is synchronous; no search job or cancel endpoint is exposed.

Examples

bash {baseDir}/scripts/firecrawl.sh run --query 'AI developer tools' --json '{"sources":["web","news"],"limit":5,"tbs":"qdr:w"}'
bash {baseDir}/scripts/firecrawl.sh run --query 'Python API documentation' --json '{"categories":["developer"],"scrapeOptions":{"formats":["markdown"]}}' --output ./out/search.json

Authentication and execution