/firecrawl-scrape

name: firecrawl-scrape
description: |
  Extract clean markdown from any URL, including JavaScript-rendered SPAs. Use this skill whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content, says "scrape", "grab", "fetch", "pull", "get the page", "extract from this URL", or "read this webpage". Handles JS-rendered pages, multiple concurrent URLs, and returns LLM-optimized markdown. Use this instead of WebFetch for any webpage content extraction.
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(firecrawl *)
  - Bash(npx firecrawl *)

firecrawl scrape

Scrape one or more URLs. Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown. Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently.

When to use

• You have a specific URL and want its content
• The page is static or JS-rendered (SPA)
• Step 2 in the [workflow escalation pattern](firecrawl-cli): search → **scrape** → map → crawl → interact

Quick start

# Basic markdown extraction
firecrawl scrape "<url>" -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Main content only, no nav/footer
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --only-main-content -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Wait for JS to render, then scrape
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --wait-for 3000 -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Multiple URLs (each saved to .firecrawl/)
firecrawl scrape https://example.com https://example.com/blog https://example.com/docs

# Get markdown and links together
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --format markdown,links -o .firecrawl/page.json

# Ask a question about the page
firecrawl scrape "https://example.com/pricing" --query "What is the enterprise plan price?"

Options

| Option | Description | | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | `-f, --format <formats>` | Output formats: markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshot, json | | `-Q, --query <prompt>` | Ask a question about the page content (5 credits) | | `-H` | Include HTTP headers in output | | `--only-main-content` | Strip nav, footer, sidebar — main content only | | `--wait-for <ms>` | Wait for JS rendering before scraping | | `--include-tags <tags>` | Only include these HTML tags | | `--exclude-tags <tags>` | Exclude these HTML tags | | `--redact-pii` | Redact personally identifiable information from output | | `-o, --output <path>` | Output file path |

Tips

• **Prefer plain scrape over `--query`.** Scrape to a file, then use `grep`, `head`, or read the markdown directly — you can search and reason over the full content yourself. Use `--query` only when you want a single targeted answer without saving the page (costs 5 extra credits).
• **Try scrape before interact.** Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Only escalate to `interact` when you need interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination).
• Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check `firecrawl --status` for your concurrency limit.
• Single format outputs raw content. Multiple formats (e.g., `--format markdown,links`) output JSON.
• Always quote URLs — shell interprets `?` and `&` as special characters.
• Naming convention: `.firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md`

See also

• [firecrawl-search](../firecrawl-search/SKILL.md) — find pages when you don't have a URL
• [firecrawl-interact](../firecrawl-interact/SKILL.md) — when scrape can't get the content, use `interact` to click, fill forms, etc.
• [firecrawl-download](../firecrawl-download/SKILL.md) — bulk download an entire site to local files