Firecrawl Install & Auth

Overview

Install the Firecrawl SDK and configure API key authentication. Firecrawl turns any website into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. The SDK is published as @mendable/firecrawl-js on npm and firecrawl-py on PyPI.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ or Python 3.10+
• Package manager (npm, pnpm, yarn, or pip)
• Firecrawl API key from firecrawl.dev/app (free tier available)

Instructions

Step 1: Install the SDK

set -euo pipefail
# Node.js (official npm package)
npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js