firecrawl-company-directories

Turns a startup or company directory — Y Combinator, Crunchbase, Product Hunt — into an ordinary list you can open in a spreadsheet, one row per company.

WHEN TO USE

SCOPE

USE FOR

Pull every company listed in a Y Combinator batch into one exportable table.
Turn a Crunchbase or Product Hunt category page into a structured company list.
Export a custom company directory into a CRM-ready CSV or JSON file.

This is a saved copy of the skill's SKILL.md instructions. It may differ from the upstream file or the version you install.

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Firecrawl Company Directories

Use this to turn startup or company directories into structured lists.

Onboarding Interview

Infer the directory, filters, result count, and output format from context. If the source is clear, proceed immediately.

Ask at most 1-3 concise questions only if blocked, such as the directory URL/name, required filters, or target result count.

Firecrawl Collection Plan

Use Firecrawl browser when the directory needs filters, pagination, infinite scroll, or profile clicks. Use scrape/map when listings are public and static.

Suggested sources include YC companies, Crunchbase, Product Hunt, G2 categories, or any custom directory URL.

Extraction Fields

Capture fields that are visible:

name
description
industry/category
stage/founded/location/team size/funding when visible
tags
directory profile URL
company website URL

Leave unavailable fields blank. Do not infer.

Final Deliverable

# Company Directory Export: [Source]

## Summary
[Filters, count extracted, limitations]

## Companies
[Table or link to JSON/CSV]

## Sources
[Directory pages and profiles used]

## Rerun Inputs
workflow: firecrawl-company-directories
directory: [source]
filters: [criteria]
max_results: [number]
output: [json/csv/markdown]

JSON Shape

Use source, filters, extractedAt, totalResults, and companies[] with name, url, description, industry, stage, founded, location, teamSize, funding, tags, profileUrl, and websiteUrl.

Quality Bar

Deduplicate companies.
Track pagination progress.
Note rate limits, login walls, or CAPTCHA blocks.

Account or credentials required

1 FOR YOU

01
Get a Firecrawl API key
Set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to a Firecrawl API key so the CLI or browser flow can make hosted Firecrawl requests, since the skill's own frontmatter marks this input as required for collecting directory listings.
You set: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Listed as free: Connected services may require an account or charge fees.
Setup details: Expect some account or credential setup.

This skill ships inside the Firecrawl Workflows plugin.

Needs the Firecrawl CLI or MCP server. Set that up first — this skill doesn't include it.

Install just this skill

Run this outside your AI tool, using Node.js 22.20.0 or newer. Skills CLI 1.7.2 skips skill selection; prompts cancel installation without an interactive terminal. If choosing Project when asked about installation scope, open your project's folder before running this.

Install checklist

Check selected tools if a picker appears; Claude Code may be unchecked under Additional agents. ↑/↓ moves, Space toggles selections, Enter confirms.
Without a tool picker, check Installing to: for your intended tool. Stop if it names a different tool.
If asked, choose Symlink (Recommended) for shared files or Copy to all agents for separate copies; review the summary before confirming installation.
Install the find-skills skill? defaults to Yes, adding another skill for all projects. Choose No if you don't want that extra installation.

Skills CLI 1.7.2 sends install data to skills.sh by default, including the source, skill names, target tools and file details; GitHub sources are reported only when GitHub confirms the repository is public, while other remote sources can also be reported. Confirmed-public GitHub sources also trigger a security-audit request. Before installing, set the environment variable DO_NOT_TRACK=1 or DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 to disable both.

npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows --skill "firecrawl-company-directories" --full-depth

After installing for Claude Code, open it in the installation project if you chose Project; Global makes the skill available across projects on this computer. Once Claude Code loads the skill, its description helps Claude decide when to use it.

If installation created a top-level skills folder that did not exist when your Claude Code session started, run /reload-skills in that session. Run it again after later changes in that folder.

Install the whole plugin

This route installs the Firecrawl Workflows plugin package selected for your AI tool.

PLUGIN MARKETPLACE

Add the marketplace, then install the plugin

Typed inside the agent's own prompt, not in a terminal. The marketplace is called firecrawl-workflows, which is the part after the @.

/plugin marketplace add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows

/plugin install firecrawl-workflows@firecrawl-workflows

Open plugin page ↗

What's inside

Files included with this skill.

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