Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a specialized API-first tool designed to solve the "messy web" problem for AI developers. It crawls entire domains and converts raw HTML into clean, structured Markdown—the preferred format for Large Language Models (LLMs) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems.

  ### The Developer's Edge
  Unlike traditional scrapers that break when a site's CSS changes, Firecrawl uses AI-driven extraction to focus on semantic content rather than brittle selectors.
  
  **Core Endpoints:**
  * **/scrape**: Extracts content from a single URL into Markdown or JSON.
  * **/crawl**: Recursively traverses a website to build a full knowledge base.
  * **/map**: Quickly identifies all reachable URLs on a domain without full scraping.
  * **/extract**: Uses a natural language prompt or JSON schema to pull specific data points (e.g., "Extract all product prices").
  
  > "Firecrawl handles the proxies, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot bypass so you can focus on building your AI agent."
  
  **Pricing & Limits**: Firecrawl offers a generous **Free** tier for hobbyists. The **Pro** and **Enterprise** plans scale based on credit usage, offering higher concurrency and dedicated support for production-grade pipelines.
  
  **Best for**: Developers building AI agents, researchers automating data collection, and teams creating custom LLM training datasets.