Firecrawl Has a Free Web Scraping API — Convert Any Website to Clean Markdown or Data

Firecrawl is a web scraping API that converts websites into clean markdown or structured data — perfect for feeding content to LLMs.

What You Get for Free (Free Tier)

• 500 credits/month — scrape pages for free
• Markdown output — clean markdown from any webpage
• Structured extraction — extract specific data with LLM
• Crawl — follow links and scrape entire sites
• Map — get all URLs from a domain
• Screenshot — capture page screenshots
• JavaScript rendering — handles SPAs and dynamic content
• Anti-blocking — proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving
• SDKs — Python, Node.js, Go, Rust

Quick Start

from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp

app = FirecrawlApp(api_key='fc-...')

# Scrape a single page → markdown
result = app.scrape_url('https://example.com/blog/post-1')
print(result['markdown'])  # clean markdown content

# Extract structured data
result = app.scrape_url('https://example.com/product', {
    'formats': ['extract'],
    'extract': {
        'schema': {
            'type': 'object',
            'properties': {
                'name': {'type': 'string'},
                'price': {'type': 'number'},
                'features': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'string'}}
            }
        }
    }
})

Why Developers Switch from BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup requires handling proxies, JavaScript, and parsing yourself:

• One API call — no Playwright setup, no proxy management
• Clean markdown — perfect for RAG and LLM ingestion
• Structured extraction — LLM-powered data extraction
• Anti-blocking — handles CAPTCHAs and IP blocks

A RAG pipeline using BeautifulSoup broke on 30% of sites (JavaScript-rendered). After Firecrawl: 99% success rate, clean markdown output, one API call per page.

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