firecrawl-search
Web search with optional full-page content extraction from results.
- Returns real search results as JSON with optional
--scrapeflag to fetch complete page markdown for each result, avoiding redundant fetches - Supports filtering by source type (web, images, news), category (GitHub, research, PDF), time range (past hour/day/week/month/year), location, and country
- Use
--limitto control result count and--scrape-formatsto customize output formats when extracting full content - Part of a workflow escalation pattern: search first to discover URLs, then use dedicated scrape/map/crawl skills for deeper extraction
firecrawl search
Search naturally using the user’s actual question. Default search returns web results plus relevant Alexandria tools, with optional web content scraping.
For structured records, filterable listings, transcripts, or datasets, first check firecrawl search alexandria '<data you need>' for a suitable workflow or data provider. For a known website, use firecrawl find-tools <url>. Inspect a selected contract with firecrawl list <provider> <capability> --pretty before executing it through scrape; reuse a complete contract already returned by discovery. If no suitable tool exists, continue with web search or Agent. Use ordinary search for web research and URL scrape for a known page.
Quick start
# Basic search
firecrawl search "your query" -o .firecrawl/result.json --json
# Search and scrape full page content from results
firecrawl search "your query" --scrape -o .firecrawl/scraped.json --json
# News from the past day
firecrawl search "your query" --sources news --tbs qdr:d -o .firecrawl/news.json --json