What can an AI agent do with Firecrawl?

A Firecrawl AI agent can scrape any public URL into clean markdown, crawl entire websites and return all page content, map site structures, run web searches with full-page results, and extract structured fields from pages using a schema or plain-language prompt. It can run these tasks on a schedule or on demand, making it ideal for research, competitive monitoring, and feeding data into RAG pipelines.

What kinds of websites can Firecrawl handle?

Firecrawl handles most public websites including JavaScript-heavy SPAs, paginated sites, and sites behind common bot protections. It returns content as clean markdown by default, stripping ads, navigation, and boilerplate so the AI gets only the useful text.

How is this different from a regular web search tool?

Search tools return snippets and links. Firecrawl returns the full content of each page - clean, structured, and ready for the AI to reason over. That makes it the right tool when you need complete information from a page, not just a preview.

Can my agent crawl an entire documentation site automatically?

Yes. You can point the crawler at a root URL and it will follow internal links up to a configurable depth and page limit, returning all discovered content. This is commonly used to build knowledge bases or seed a vector store for RAG.

Developer tools

Firecrawl, run by an agent.

An AI agent that scrapes, crawls, and extracts web content for research and RAG pipelines.

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What it does without asking

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agent status
check crawl status
crawl
extract
map
scrape
search

These run without asking so your agent can gather what it needs, along with a few more reads we don't list here. Anything that changes Firecrawl goes through approval: your agent shows you the plan first, and you can approve a recurring task once so it runs unattended after that.

A real run

An example of how a run works, including the approval step. Not a Firecrawl run.

Google Ads

Paid search

Working

review last week's google ads and cut wasted spend.

Queried Google Ads · last 7 days · 4 campaigns

Analyzed search terms · 312 terms · 18 with zero conversions

Drafted changes · 12 negative keywords · 2 budget shifts

Found $1,840/mo going to search terms that never convert. I'd add 12 negatives and move that budget to your two best campaigns. This changes the account, so it's your call before I touch anything.

Plan approval

Add 12 negative keywords stops $1,840/mo on terms with 0 conversions · reversible
Shift budget move the freed spend to your 2 best campaigns · roas 4.2×

Waiting for your approval. Nothing runs until a human decides.

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