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Bulk-extract many pages from one site or section. Use for "crawl", "everything under /docs", or content spanning linked pages.

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Install
$ npx -y skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin --skill firecrawl-crawl --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/firecrawl-crawl

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Bulk-extract many pages from one site or section. Use for "crawl", "everything under /docs", or content spanning linked pages.

SKILL.md

firecrawl-crawl.SKILL.md
name: firecrawl-crawl
description: |
  Bulk-extract many pages from one site or section. Use for "crawl", "everything under /docs", or content spanning linked pages.
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(firecrawl *)
  - Bash(npx firecrawl-cli *)

firecrawl crawl

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

**Prerequisite:** `crawl` requires authentication (no keyless free tier); without credentials the CLI prompts an interactive login.

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>

Run `firecrawl crawl --help` for the full option list.

**Done when:** the crawl reaches a terminal status and the saved output under `.firecrawl/` contains the expected pages.

Tips

  • Use `--wait` when you need the results immediately. It has no default timeout; use `--timeout <seconds>` to bound polling. Without `--wait`, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
  • **Scope crawls with `--include-paths`** whenever the request names a section — crawl only the pages you need.
  • Crawl consumes credits per page. Check `firecrawl credit-usage` before large crawls (`credit-usage` requires authentication).

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)
  • [firecrawl-build-scrape](https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/build/firecrawl-build-scrape) — building bulk extraction into an app instead of running it here
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Ships withfirecrawl

Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data — directly from Claude Code. This plugin adds the Firecrawl CLI as a skill to Claude Code, giving it the ability to scrape, search, crawl, and map the web.

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