At a glance
- Availability: Experimental (how to enable).
- Auth: API key.
- Connection: The key comes from
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. - Docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/introduction
Credentials
Set these per environment. See Connect an integration.Setup
- Create a Firecrawl account: Go to https://www.firecrawl.dev and sign up - the free plan includes one-time credits for testing.
- Get your API key: Open https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys and copy your key (or create a new one per project).
- Store the key: Add it to your .env file as FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-…
- Verify access: Run the Scrape Page tool on a public URL. A 401 means the key is invalid; a 402 means you are out of credits.
- All endpoints consume credits per page; crawls multiply cost by the number of pages - set a small ‘limit’ first
- Start Crawl is asynchronous: poll Get Crawl Status with the returned job ID until status is ‘completed’
Tools
Example prompts
- Scrape a URL I provide with Firecrawl and summarize its content.
- Start a Firecrawl crawl of a website I provide, then check its status and summarize what was found.