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firecrawl-crawl

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by firecrawl · part of firecrawl/firecrawl-cli

Bulk extract content from an entire website or site section. Use this skill when the user wants to crawl a site, extract all pages from a docs section, bulk-scrape multiple pages following links, or says "crawl", "get all the pages", "extract everything under /docs", "bulk extract", or needs content from many pages on the same site. Handles depth limits, path filtering, and concurrent extraction.

🔌 This skill ships inside the firecrawl plugin — installing the plugin keeps everything updated together.

This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.

firecrawl crawl

Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.

When to use

  • You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all /docs/)
  • You want to extract an entire site section
  • Step 4 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact

Options

OptionDescription
--waitWait for crawl to complete before returning
--progressShow progress while waiting
--limit <n>Max pages to crawl
--max-depth <n>Max link depth to follow
--include-paths <paths>Only crawl URLs matching these paths
--exclude-paths <paths>Skip URLs matching these paths
--delay <ms>Delay between requests
--max-concurrency <n>Max parallel crawl workers
--prettyPretty print JSON output
-o, --output <path>Output file path

Tips

  • Always use --wait when you need the results immediately. Without it, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
  • Use --include-paths to scope the crawl — don't crawl an entire site when you only need one section.
  • Crawl consumes credits per page. Check firecrawl credit-usage before large crawls.

See also