firecrawl-scrape

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Extract clean markdown from any URL, including JavaScript-rendered SPAs. Use this skill whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content, says "scrape", "grab", "fetch", "pull", "get the page", "extract from this URL", or "read this webpage". Handles JS-rendered pages, multiple concurrent URLs, and returns LLM-optimized markdown. Use this instead of WebFetch for any webpage content extraction.

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Sourcefirecrawl/cli

Added on2026-03-11

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add firecrawl/cli firecrawl-scrape

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firecrawl scrape

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

When to use

You have a specific URL and want its content
The page is static or JS-rendered (SPA)
Step 2 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → browser

Quick start

bash

# 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 (each saved to .firecrawl/)
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

Options

Option	Description
`-f, --format <formats>`	Output formats: markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshot, json
`-H`	Include HTTP headers in output
`--only-main-content`	Strip nav, footer, sidebar — main content only
`--wait-for <ms>`	Wait for JS rendering before scraping
`--include-tags <tags>`	Only include these HTML tags
`--exclude-tags <tags>`	Exclude these HTML tags
`-o, --output <path>`	Output file path

Tips

Try scrape before browser. Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Only escalate to browser when you need interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination).
Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check
```
firecrawl --status
```
for your concurrency limit.
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
```