/firecrawl-crawl

name: firecrawl-crawl
description: |
  Bulk extract content from an entire website or site section. Use this skill when the user wants to crawl a site, extract all pages from a docs section, bulk-scrape multiple pages following links, or says "crawl", "get all the pages", "extract everything under /docs", "bulk extract", or needs content from many pages on the same site. Handles depth limits, path filtering, and concurrent extraction.
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(firecrawl *)
  - Bash(npx firecrawl *)

firecrawl crawl

Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.

When to use

• You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all `/docs/`)
• You want to extract an entire site section
• Step 4 in the [workflow escalation pattern](firecrawl-cli): search → scrape → map → **crawl** → interact

Quick start

# Crawl a docs section
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --include-paths /docs --limit 50 --wait -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Full crawl with depth limit
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --max-depth 3 --wait --progress -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Check status of a running crawl
firecrawl crawl <job-id>

Options

| Option | Description | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | `--wait` | Wait for crawl to complete before returning | | `--progress` | Show progress while waiting | | `--limit <n>` | Max pages to crawl | | `--max-depth <n>` | Max link depth to follow | | `--include-paths <paths>` | Only crawl URLs matching these paths | | `--exclude-paths <paths>` | Skip URLs matching these paths | | `--delay <ms>` | Delay between requests | | `--max-concurrency <n>` | Max parallel crawl workers | | `--pretty` | Pretty print JSON output | | `-o, --output <path>` | Output file path |

Tips

• Always use `--wait` when you need the results immediately. Without it, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
• Use `--include-paths` to scope the crawl — don't crawl an entire site when you only need one section.
• Crawl consumes credits per page. Check `firecrawl credit-usage` before large crawls.

See also

• [firecrawl-scrape](../firecrawl-scrape/SKILL.md) — scrape individual pages
• [firecrawl-map](../firecrawl-map/SKILL.md) — discover URLs before deciding to crawl
• [firecrawl-download](../firecrawl-download/SKILL.md) — download site to local files (uses map + scrape)