firecrawl-instruct

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Control and interact with a live browser session on any scraped page — click buttons, fill forms, navigate flows, and extract data using natural language prompts or code. Replaces the old firecrawl-browser command. Use when the user needs to interact with a webpage beyond simple scraping: logging into a site, submitting forms, clicking through pagination, handling infinite scroll, navigating multi-step checkout or wizard flows, or when a regular scrape failed because content is behind JavaScript interaction. Also useful for authenticated scraping via profiles. Triggers on "browser", "instruct", "click", "fill out the form", "log in to", "sign in", "submit", "paginated", "next page", "infinite scroll", "interact with the page", "navigate to", "open a session", or "scrape failed".

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Sourcefirecrawl/cli

Added on2026-04-02

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add firecrawl/cli firecrawl-instruct

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firecrawl instruct

Interact with scraped pages in a live browser session. Scrape a page first, then use natural language prompts or code to click, fill forms, navigate, and extract data.

When to use

Content requires interaction: clicks, form fills, pagination, login
```
scrape
```
failed because content is behind JavaScript interaction
You need to navigate a multi-step flow
Last resort in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → instruct
Never use instruct for web searches — use
```
search
```
instead

Quick start

bash

# 1. Scrape a page (scrape ID is saved automatically)
firecrawl scrape "<url>"

# 2. Interact with the page using natural language
firecrawl interact --prompt "Click the login button"
firecrawl interact --prompt "Fill in the email field with test@example.com"
firecrawl interact --prompt "Extract the pricing table"

# 3. Or use code for precise control
firecrawl interact --code "agent-browser click @e5" --language bash
firecrawl interact --code "agent-browser snapshot -i" --language bash

# 4. Stop the session when done
firecrawl interact stop

Options

Option	Description
`--prompt <text>`	Natural language instruction (use this OR --code)
`--code <code>`	Code to execute in the browser session
`--language <lang>`	Language for code: bash, python, node
`--timeout <seconds>`	Execution timeout (default: 30, max: 300)
`--scrape-id <id>`	Target a specific scrape (default: last scrape)
`-o, --output <path>`	Output file path

Profiles

Use

--profile

on the scrape to persist browser state (cookies, localStorage) across scrapes:

bash

# Session 1: Login and save state
firecrawl scrape "https://app.example.com/login" --profile my-app
firecrawl interact --prompt "Fill in email with user@example.com and click login"

# Session 2: Come back authenticated
firecrawl scrape "https://app.example.com/dashboard" --profile my-app
firecrawl interact --prompt "Extract the dashboard data"

Read-only reconnect (no writes to profile state):

bash

firecrawl scrape "https://app.example.com" --profile my-app --no-save-changes

Tips

Always scrape first —
```
interact
```
requires a scrape ID from a previous
```
firecrawl scrape
```
call
The scrape ID is saved automatically, so you don't need
```
--scrape-id
```
for subsequent interact calls
Use
```
firecrawl interact stop
```
to free resources when done
For parallel work, scrape multiple pages and interact with each using
```
--scrape-id
```

firecrawl-instruct

NPX Install

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SKILL.md Content

firecrawl instruct

When to use

Quick start

Options

Profiles

Tips

See also