Firecrawl for AI agents
Agents read Firecrawl at once. Changes and sends are held for a person's approval by default.
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl automates web crawling and data extraction, enabling organizations to gather content, index sites, and gain insights from online sources at scale
What an agent can do in Firecrawl
Every Firecrawl action is classed by the platform as a read, a change or a send. Reads run at once. Changes and sends are held for a person by default.
Runs at once (reads)
Looks things up in Firecrawl without asking first. 17 actions.
- Get crawl job statusTool to retrieve the status and results of a Firecrawl crawl job. Use when you need to check the progress or get data from an ongoing or completed crawl operation. Returns crawl status, progress metri
- Get team credit usageTool to get current team credit usage information. Use when you need to check remaining credits or billing period details.
- Get extract job statusTool to retrieve the status and results of a previously submitted extract job. Use when you need to check the progress or get the final results of an extraction operation.
- Get the status of a crawl jobRetrieves the current status, progress, and details of a web crawl job, using the job ID obtained when the crawl was initiated.
- Map multiple URLsMaps a website by discovering URLs from a starting base URL, with options to customize the crawl via search query, subdomain inclusion, sitemap handling, and result limits; search effectiveness is sit
- Get team token usageTool to retrieve the current team's token usage and balance information for Firecrawl's Extract feature. Use when you need to check remaining token credits, plan allocation, or billing period details.
- Get errors from a crawl jobTool to retrieve errors from a Firecrawl crawl job. Use when you need to understand why certain pages failed to scrape or which URLs were blocked by robots.txt during a crawl operation.
- Get all active crawl jobsTool to retrieve all active crawl jobs for the authenticated team. Use when you need to see which crawl operations are currently running.
- Preview crawl parametersPreview crawl parameters before starting a crawl by generating optimal configuration from natural language instructions. Use this tool to understand what crawl settings will be applied based on your r
- Get historical team credit usageTool to retrieve historical team credit usage on a monthly basis. Use when you need to analyze credit consumption patterns over time, optionally segmented by API key.
- Get agent job statusTool to get the status and results of an agent job. Use when you need to check if an agent job has completed and retrieve the collected data. Agent jobs autonomously search, navigate, and extract data
- Get deep research statusRetrieves the status and results of a deep research job by its ID. Use when you need to check the progress or retrieve the final analysis of a deep research operation.
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- Get LLMs.txt generation job statusTool to get the status and results of an LLMs.txt generation job. Use when you need to check if a job has completed and retrieve the generated content.
- Get team queue statusTool to retrieve metrics about the team's scrape queue. Use when you need to check queue status, job counts, or concurrency limits.
- Scrape URLScrapes a publicly accessible URL, optionally performing pre-scrape browser actions or extracting structured JSON using an LLM, to retrieve content in specified formats.
- SearchPerforms a web search for a query, scrapes content from the top search results using Firecrawl, and returns details in specified formats.
- Get historical team token usageTool to retrieve historical team token usage on a monthly basis. Use when you need to analyze token consumption patterns over time, optionally segmented by API key.
Held for approval by default (changes and sends)
Held for a person's approval by default. The approval is recorded and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo. 12 actions.
- Batch scrape multiple URLsTool to scrape multiple URLs in batch with concurrent processing. Use when you need to scrape multiple web pages efficiently with customizable formats and content filtering.
- Get batch scrape statusRetrieves the current status and results of a batch scrape job using the job ID. Use this to check batch scrape progress and retrieve scraped data.
- Cancel a crawl jobCancels an active or queued web crawl job using its ID; attempting to cancel completed, failed, or previously canceled jobs will not change their state.
- Start an agent jobTool to start an agent job for agentic web extraction with multi-page navigation and interaction capabilities. Use when you need to autonomously gather data from the web with complex navigation requir
- Cancel an agent jobTool to cancel an in-progress agent job by its ID. Use when you need to terminate an active agent operation. The API returns a success boolean upon cancellation.
- Cancel a batch scrape jobTool to cancel a running batch scrape job using its unique identifier. Use when you need to terminate an in-progress batch scrape operation.
- Get errors from batch scrape jobTool to retrieve error details from a batch scrape job, including failed URLs and URLs blocked by robots.txt. Use when you need to debug or understand why certain pages failed to scrape in a batch ope
- Start a web crawlInitiates a Firecrawl web crawl from a given URL, applying various filtering and content extraction rules, and polls until the job is complete; ensure the URL is accessible and any regex patterns for
- Cancel a crawl jobTool to cancel a running crawl job by its ID. Use when you need to stop an active crawl operation. The API returns a status of 'cancelled' upon successful cancellation.
- Start a web crawl (v2) [NEW][NEW v2 API] Initiates a Firecrawl v2 web crawl with enhanced features over v1: natural language prompts for automatic crawler configuration, crawlEntireDomain for sibling/parent page discovery, bette
- Extract structured dataExtracts structured data from web pages by initiating an extraction job and polling for completion; requires a natural language `prompt` or a JSON `schema` (one must be provided).
- Generate LLMs.txt for a websiteInitiates an async job to generate an LLMs.txt file for a website, converting web content into LLM-friendly format. Returns a job ID to check status and retrieve results. Use when you need to create a
Changes wait in Needs you
Changes and sends in Firecrawl are held for a person's approval by default. The approval is recorded, and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo.
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Firecrawl questions
Can an agent change data in Firecrawl on its own?
Not by default. Changes and sends in Firecrawl are held for a person's approval. The approval is recorded, and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo.
What can an agent read in Firecrawl?
This connector lists 17 read actions. Reads run at once, without waiting for approval.
How does Firecrawl connect?
It connects with API key. Connectors are built and maintained by third-party developers; availability is confirmed during scoping.