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Agent Skills: firecrawl scrape

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UncategorizedID: firecrawl/cli/firecrawl-scrape

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firecrawl/cli
firecrawl
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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/firecrawl/cli/tree/HEAD/skills/firecrawl-scrape

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Skill Metadata

Name
firecrawl-scrape
Description
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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 → interact

Quick start

# 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

# Ask a question about the page
firecrawl scrape "https://example.com/pricing" --query "What is the enterprise plan price?"

Options

| Option | Description | | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | -f, --format <formats> | Output formats: markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshot, json | | -Q, --query <prompt> | Ask a question about the page content (5 credits) | | -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

  • Prefer plain scrape over --query. Scrape to a file, then use grep, head, or read the markdown directly — you can search and reason over the full content yourself. Use --query only when you want a single targeted answer without saving the page (costs 5 extra credits).
  • Try scrape before interact. Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Only escalate to interact 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

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