What is firecrawl-parse?

A local document-to-markdown converter for files such as PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and HTML. Markdown is plain text with simple formatting that is easy for people and tools to read.

Use it to extract document text, create summaries, ask questions about files, and save the results as markdown.

It turns varied document formats into clean text saved on disk, avoiding the need to inspect large files in an assistant's chat context.

firecrawl-parse — Skill for Claude Code by RudraDudhat2509

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 RudraDudhat2509/claude-skills --skill firecrawl-parse

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RudraDudhat2509/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rudradudhat2509/claude-skills/firecrawl-parse.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 692 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00153	$0.00692
Opus 5.5	$0.00061	$0.00277
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00031	$0.00138
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c6f694cab0db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firecrawl-parse 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.

firecrawl-parse/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

firecrawl parse

Turn a local document into clean markdown on disk. Supports PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML/HTM/XHTML.

When to use

You have a file on disk (not a URL) and want its text as markdown
User drops a PDF/DOCX and asks what it says, or to summarize it
Use scrape instead when the source is a URL

Quick start

Always save to .firecrawl/ with -o — parsed docs can be hundreds of KB and blow up context if streamed to stdout. Add .firecrawl/ to .gitignore.

mkdir -p .firecrawl

# File → markdown
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -o .firecrawl/paper.md

# AI summary
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -S -o .firecrawl/paper-summary.md

# Ask a question about the doc
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -Q "What are the main conclusions?" \
  -o .firecrawl/paper-qa.md

Then head, grep, rg etc., or incrementally read the file - don't load the whole thing at once.

Options

Option	Description
`-S, --summary`	AI-generated summary
`-Q, --query <prompt>`	Ask a question about the parsed content
`-o, --output <path>`	Output file path — always use this
`-f, --format <fmt>`	`markdown` (default), `html`, `summary`
`--timeout <ms>`	Timeout for the parse job
`--timing`	Show request duration

Tips

Quote paths with spaces: firecrawl parse "./My Doc.pdf" -o .firecrawl/mydoc.md.
Max upload size: 50 MB per file.
Credits: ~1 per PDF page; HTML is 1 flat.
Check .firecrawl/ before re-parsing the same file.
To check your credit balance (recommended for batch processing and similar workflows), use the firecrawl credit-usage command.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A c6f694cab0db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

firecrawl-parse is a skill published in the GitHub repository RudraDudhat2509/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 692 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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