Firecrawl Core Workflow A — Scrape & Crawl

Overview

Primary workflow for Firecrawl: convert websites into clean LLM-ready markdown. Covers single-page scraping with scrapeUrl, multi-page crawling with crawlUrl, async crawl jobs with polling, and content processing pipelines.

Prerequisites

• @mendable/firecrawl-js installed
• FIRECRAWL_API_KEY environment variable set
• Target URL(s) identified

Instructions

Step 1: Single-Page Scrape

import FirecrawlApp from "@mendable/firecrawl-js";

const firecrawl = new FirecrawlApp({
  apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY!,
});