firecrawl-cli

firecrawl-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fredabila/orcbot. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for collecting website content through Firecrawl, a cloud service that opens pages remotely and returns readable text or structured data. It can also search sites and process many pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scrape individual pages, crawl groups of pages, search the web, extract JSON fields, or operate a remote browser session step by step.
Why use it?
It helps when a local browser cannot load a page because of bot protection or JavaScript, or when manually parsing HTML would take too much work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to scrape individual pages, crawl groups of pages, search the web, extract JSON fields, or operate a remote browser session step by step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fredabila/orcbot/firecrawl-cli
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.

Any agent
npx skills add fredabila/orcbot --skill firecrawl-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fredabila/orcbot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.01488
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00595
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00149

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5e789ae969e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

docs/skills/firecrawl-cli/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firecrawl CLI Skill

Overview

Firecrawl provides a cloud browser and AI extraction layer on top of any website. Unlike OrcBot's local Playwright browser, Firecrawl runs browser sessions on remote infrastructure, handles bot-protection (Cloudflare, reCAPTCHA, etc.), and can return pre-formatted markdown or structured JSON without you parsing HTML.

Browser Decision Guide

Always choose the right browser for the job:

Situation Use
Simple page, just need to read content browser_navigate (Playwright, free, fast)
Need to click buttons, fill forms, interact browser_navigate + browser_click + browser_type
Page is bot-protected, Cloudflare, requires JS firecrawl_scrape
Need clean markdown without any DOM work firecrawl_scrape
Need bulk content from many pages firecrawl_crawl
Need structured JSON from web data firecrawl_agent
Need to drive a session step by step in cloud firecrawl_browser

Do NOT replace working browser_navigate calls with firecrawl_scrape just because firecrawl is installed. Use firecrawl when local Playwright fails or when the task specifically benefits from cloud execution.

Setup

# Install the CLI globally
npm install -g firecrawl-cli

# Authenticate (choose one)
firecrawl login                          # interactive browser login
firecrawl login --api-key fc-YOUR-KEY    # direct API key

# Verify
firecrawl --status

For a self-hosted Firecrawl instance (no API key needed):

export FIRECRAWL_API_URL=http://localhost:3002

Skills Available

After this skill is activated OrcBot has access to these callable tools:

firecrawl_scrape(url, format?, options?)

Extract content from a URL via cloud browser. Default format is markdown.

# Get clean markdown
firecrawl_scrape("https://example.com")

# Get all links from a page
firecrawl_scrape("https://example.com", "links")

# Extract main content only, skip navs and footers
firecrawl_scrape("https://example.com", "markdown", {only_main_content: true})

# Wait 3s for JS to render, then scrape
firecrawl_scrape("https://spa.example.com", "markdown", {wait_for: 3000})

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 175 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 5e789ae969e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

firecrawl-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository fredabila/orcbot (11 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,488 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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