What is firecrawl-cli?

A command-line skill for scraping web pages, crawling whole sites, mapping site URLs, and searching the web. It extracts page content into clean Markdown, including pages that need JavaScript to load.

Use it to extract documentation, research websites, monitor content, compare competitors, or search the web from the command line.

It removes much of the manual work involved in collecting readable content from websites for research or documentation.

firecrawl-cli — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by citedy: A command-line skill for scraping web pages, crawling whole…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/citedy/adclaw/firecrawl

Any agent

npx skills add citedy/adclaw --skill firecrawl

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citedy/adclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/citedy/adclaw/firecrawl.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/citedy/adclaw/firecrawl)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/citedy/adclaw/firecrawl"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/citedy/adclaw/firecrawl.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,376 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00060	$0.02376
Opus 5	$0.00030	$0.01188
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00475
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00238

Measured 5d ago against content hash e9f95472ea84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firecrawl-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/adclaw/agents/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firecrawl CLI

Use the firecrawl CLI to fetch and search the web. Firecrawl returns clean markdown optimized for LLM context windows, handles JavaScript rendering, bypasses common blocks, and provides structured data.

Installation

Check status, auth, and rate limits:

firecrawl --status

Output when ready:

  🔥 firecrawl cli v1.0.2

  ● Authenticated via FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
  Concurrency: 0/100 jobs (parallel scrape limit)
  Credits: 500,000 remaining

Concurrency: Max parallel jobs. Run parallel operations close to this limit but not above.
Credits: Remaining API credits. Each scrape/crawl consumes credits.

If not installed: npm install -g firecrawl-cli

Always refer to the installation rules in rules/install.md for more information if the user is not logged in.

Authentication

If not authenticated, run:

firecrawl login --browser

The --browser flag automatically opens the browser for authentication without prompting.

Organization

Create a .firecrawl/ folder in the working directory unless it already exists to store results. Add .firecrawl/ to the .gitignore file if not already there. Always use -o to write directly to file (avoids flooding context):

# Search the web (most common operation)
firecrawl search "your query" -o .firecrawl/search-{query}.json

# Search with scraping enabled
firecrawl search "your query" --scrape -o .firecrawl/search-{query}-scraped.json

# Scrape a page
firecrawl scrape https://example.com -o .firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md

Examples:

.firecrawl/search-react_server_components.json
.firecrawl/search-ai_news-scraped.json
.firecrawl/docs.github.com-actions-overview.md
.firecrawl/firecrawl.dev.md

Commands

Search - Web search with optional scraping

# Basic search (human-readable output)
firecrawl search "your query" -o .firecrawl/search-query.txt

# JSON output (recommended for parsing)
firecrawl search "your query" -o .firecrawl/search-query.json --json

# Limit results
firecrawl search "AI news" --limit 10 -o .firecrawl/search-ai-news.json --json

# Search specific sources
firecrawl search "tech startups" --sources news -o .firecrawl/search-news.json --json
firecrawl search "landscapes" --sources images -o .firecrawl/search-images.json --json
firecrawl search "machine learning" --sources web,news,images -o .firecrawl/search-ml.json --json

# Filter by category (GitHub repos, research papers, PDFs)
firecrawl search "web scraping python" --categories github -o .firecrawl/search-github.json --json
firecrawl search "transformer architecture" --categories research -o .firecrawl/search-research.json --json

# Time-based search
firecrawl search "AI announcements" --tbs qdr:d -o .firecrawl/search-today.json --json  # Past day
firecrawl search "tech news" --tbs qdr:w -o .firecrawl/search-week.json --json          # Past week

# Location-based search
firecrawl search "restaurants" --location "San Francisco,California,United States" -o .firecrawl/search-sf.json --json
firecrawl search "local news" --country DE -o .firecrawl/search-germany.json --json

# Search AND scrape content from results
firecrawl search "firecrawl tutorials" --scrape -o .firecrawl/search-scraped.json --json
firecrawl search "API docs" --scrape --scrape-formats markdown,links -o .firecrawl/search-docs.json --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

5d ago First seen · 285 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A e9f95472ea84

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firecrawl-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository citedy/adclaw (35 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,376 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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