FireCrawl Core Workflow A

Overview

Primary money-path workflow for FireCrawl. This is the most common use case. FireCrawl is a web scraping and crawling API that converts any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured data. It handles JavaScript rendering, login-gated pages, and pagination automatically, which removes the need for custom browser automation scripts when you need to extract content from modern web applications.

Prerequisites

• Completed firecrawl-install-auth setup
• Understanding of FireCrawl core concepts
• Valid API credentials configured

Instructions

Step 1: Initialize

Connect to the FireCrawl API with your API key and specify the target URL you want to scrape. Choose between single-page scrape mode for individual URLs and full-crawl mode for entire sites. Configure output format preferences (Markdown, HTML, or structured JSON) and set any include or exclude URL path patterns to focus the crawl scope.

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