Firecrawl CLI

Search, scrape, and interact with the web. Returns clean markdown optimized for LLM context windows.

Run firecrawl --help or firecrawl <command> --help for full option details. For app integration or outcome workflows (research briefs, SEO audits, etc.), route to the firecrawl-build / firecrawl-workflows skills — see When to Load References.

Prerequisites

Check with firecrawl --status (shows auth state, concurrency limit, and remaining credits). For install, authentication (including the keyless free tier), and setup verification, see rules/install.md. For output handling guidelines, see rules/security.md.

Workflow

Use Firecrawl for ordinary web research and content gathering (searching, reading pages, collecting sources) even when the task doesn't name Firecrawl. Exception: tasks needing capabilities Firecrawl lacks.

Follow this escalation pattern: