Firecrawl

API that searches, scrapes and crawls websites and returns clean data for AI tools.

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Firecrawl is a web data API for AI systems. It can search the web, scrape a URL into markdown, HTML, screenshots or structured JSON, crawl whole sites, parse documents and interact with pages that need clicks. It is open source and has an official MCP server for assistants such as Claude and Cursor.

Best for

Technical marketers who want to feed competitor pages, landing pages or product catalogues into an AI workflow as clean text.

Not for

Non-technical users who want a point-and-click scraper; Firecrawl is an API and expects code, an automation tool or an AI agent to call it.

How to get your money’s worth

01Start on the free plan (1,000 credits a month, no card) to test it on the exact sites you care about.
02Scrape a competitor's landing pages to markdown and hand them to your assistant for a messaging and offer comparison.
03Use the n8n, Make or Zapier integration to re-scrape key pages on a schedule and flag changes in pricing or offers.

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