# Firecrawl Web Data API for AI Search Scraping and Crawl Workflows

> Firecrawl is an open source web data platform for search, scraping, crawling, and browser-like page interaction. It gives agents LLM-ready markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and agent-oriented endpoints for turning live websites into usable data.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/firecrawl-web-data-api-for-ai-search-scraping-and-crawl-work` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/firecrawl-web-data-api-for-ai-search-scraping-and-crawl-work`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/firecrawl-web-data-api-for-ai-search-scraping-and-crawl-work/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/firecrawl-web-data-api-for-ai-search-scraping-and-crawl-work

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# Firecrawl Web Data API for AI Search Scraping and Crawl Workflows

Firecrawl is an open source web data platform for search, scraping, crawling, and browser-like page interaction. It gives agents LLM-ready markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, and agent-oriented endpoints for turning live websites into usable data.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- python
- <summary><b>Node.js / cURL / CLI</b></summary>
- **Node.js**

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Sign up at [firecrawl.dev](https://firecrawl.dev) to get your API key. Try the [playground](https://firecrawl.dev/playground) to test it out.
- ### Search
- Search the web and get full content from results.

- Source: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/firecrawl-web-data-api-ai-search-scraping-crawl-workflows/)