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Firecrawl Agent

Autonomous web data extraction API driven by prompts without needing explicit URLs.

From the Xiry library · Updated 10 October 2026

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Firecrawl Agent is an API endpoint that searches, navigates, and scrapes websites autonomously based on a natural language prompt. Instead of manually providing target URLs or writing crawling logic, developers supply a prompt and a schema to get structured JSON back. It handles dynamic pages, pagination, and multi-source research tasks automatically.

What it's for

  • Extract founder and executive information for lead generation
  • Gather pricing and listing details across e-commerce catalogs
  • Curate custom datasets from research papers, real estate, or directory sites
  • Automate market research lookups across multiple public company profiles

Features

  • URL-optional scraping driven purely by natural language prompts
  • Type-safe structured JSON output via Pydantic or Zod schemas
  • Autonomous search and navigation across complex, dynamic JavaScript sites
  • SDK and integration support across Python, Node.js, cURL, and CLI
  • Configurable reasoning effort and credit limits via maxCredits

Pricing

Freemium. 5 free daily runs; dynamic credit-based usage depending on query complexity

Details

Type
GitHub repo
Category
AI
Topic
Web Scraping
Open source
No
Platforms
API, Code library, Command line, Web
For
Developers and AI engineers building automated web data pipelines and agent workflows.
Alternative to
Tavily, Apify, Browserbase
Tags
web scraping, ai agent, data extraction, firecrawl, api, structured data

Why it was saved

  • @ericciarla, 23 January 2025: Shows how to build an agentic crawl pipeline: Google search for a company, R1 filters URLs, /extract pulls structured data, R1 deduplicates and consolidates it into JSON.

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