# Firecrawl Scrape

> Extract a URL's content as clean markdown, including JS-rendered pages. Use whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content; prefer over WebFetch.

- Skill: `firecrawl-cli/firecrawl-scrape` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add firecrawl-cli/firecrawl-scrape`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/firecrawl-cli/firecrawl-scrape/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: firecrawl (https://skillmd.com/u/firecrawl-cli)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/firecrawl-cli/firecrawl-scrape

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# firecrawl scrape

Scrape one or more URLs. Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown. Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently.

## Quick start

```bash
# Basic markdown extraction
firecrawl scrape "<url>" -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Main content only, no nav/footer
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --only-main-content -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Wait for JS to render, then scrape
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --wait-for 3000 -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Multiple URLs (markdown only; each saved to .firecrawl/; -o is ignored)
firecrawl scrape https://example.com https://example.com/blog https://example.com/docs

# Get markdown and links together
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --format markdown,links -o .firecrawl/page.json

# Ask a question about the page
firecrawl scrape "https://example.com/pricing" --query "What is the enterprise plan price?"
```

Run `firecrawl scrape --help` for the full option list.

**Done when:** you have the scraped content — on stdout, in your `-o` file, or under `.firecrawl/` for multi-URL scrapes — and have inspected it with bounded reads (`head`, `grep`) to answer the request.

## Tips

- **Prefer plain scrape over `--query`.** Scrape to a file, then use `grep`, `head`, or read the markdown directly — you can search and reason over the full content yourself. Use `--query` only when you want a single targeted answer without saving the page (costs 5 extra credits).
- **Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs.** Escalate to `interact` when the page needs interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination) or scrape misses content.
- Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check `firecrawl --status` for your concurrency limit. This mode saves markdown only and ignores `-o`; other requested formats are dropped. If markdown wasn't requested, the whole JSON response is written into the `.md` file.
- Single format outputs raw content. Multiple formats (e.g., `--format markdown,links`) output JSON.
- Always quote URLs — shell interprets `?` and `&` as special characters.
- Naming convention: `.firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md`

## See also

- [firecrawl-search](../firecrawl-search/SKILL.md) — find pages when you don't have a URL
- [firecrawl-interact](../firecrawl-interact/SKILL.md) — when scrape can't get the content, use `interact` to click, fill forms, etc.
- [firecrawl-download](../firecrawl-download/SKILL.md) — bulk download an entire site to local files
- [firecrawl-build-scrape](https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/build/firecrawl-build-scrape) — building scrape into an app instead of running it here