firecrawl-scrape

Give it a web address and it hands back that page's text, tidied up and saved to a file — including pages that only fill themselves in once a browser loads them.

WHEN TO USE

SCOPE

USE FOR

Pull a page's readable text out of it, given just the address.
Read a handful of pages at once instead of one at a time.
Get only the page's main article, without the menus and footer.
Ask one direct question about a page instead of saving the whole thing.

NOT FOR

Checking the same page again and again for changes — set up a monitor instead of repeated scrapes.
A page that needs clicking, form fills, or pagination — escalate to interact for that.

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firecrawl scrape

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

Quick start

# 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

firecrawl-search — find pages when you don't have a URL
firecrawl-interact — when scrape can't get the content, use interact to click, fill forms, etc.
firecrawl-download — bulk download an entire site to local files
firecrawl-build-scrape — building scrape into an app instead of running it here

Local tool required

1 FOR YOU

01
Install and authenticate the Firecrawl CLI
Install the Firecrawl CLI (npm install -g firecrawl-cli, or let npx firecrawl-cli fetch it) and run firecrawl --status to confirm it is signed in, since every command here shells out to firecrawl scrape.

Listed as free: Connected services may require an account or charge fees.
Installation: One command — usually under 2 minutes.

This skill ships inside the Firecrawl CLI plugin.

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/cli --skill firecrawl-scrape firecrawl-agent firecrawl-alexandria firecrawl-crawl firecrawl-developer-index firecrawl-download firecrawl-interact firecrawl-map firecrawl-research-index firecrawl-search --full-depth

It installs 10 skills: this one and the 9 it relies on, listed below. Once these skills are installed where Claude Code loads them, their descriptions help Claude decide when to use them.

What's inside

Files included with this skill.

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firecrawl scrape

Quick start

Tips

See also

Local tool required

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