crw-extract — typed JSON from pages

When to use

• You need a structured JSON object from a page, not prose.
• Step 6 in the crw ladder. First scrape succeeds (step 2), but you need machine-readable fields. If the source is a local PDF, use crw-parse (step 5) with formats:["json"] instead.
• Schema-driven = deterministic output shape. No schema = exploratory; use a prompt to describe what you want.

How extraction works in crw

crw has no /v1/extract endpoint (Firecrawl's dedicated extract API). Instead, extraction runs in two ways, both backed by the same LLM pipeline: