A hosted web crawling and scraping API/service that turns websites into clean, LLM-ready data such as markdown and structured output.

Recent stories

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releasePRIMARY2026-07-01

Firecrawl launches /monitor for whole-web tracking across API, CLI, and MCP

Firecrawl expanded /monitor from single pages to whole-web tracking, with examples covering filings, competitor changes, hiring, and news alerts. The feature ships across the API, CLI, Playground, and Firecrawl MCP for direct use in agent and search workflows.

releasePRIMARY2026-06-17

Firecrawl launches Research Index with /search/research API and 18% arXivQA recall gain

Firecrawl released a research-specific search index with 3M+ arXiv papers, GitHub artifacts, and a /search/research interface across API, CLI, MCP, and SDKs. It combines literature retrieval, claim verification, and code lookup in one surface for research agents.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-28

Firecrawl launches /monitor webhooks with up to 90% lower token use

Firecrawl launched /monitor, a URL watcher that only pings agents when tracked pages actually change and can send results by webhook. Use it for change-only ingestion to cut LLM token spend on monitored pages.

newsPRIMARY2026-05-26

Firecrawl integrates into Vercel Marketplace with scraping, search, and dynamic-site access

Firecrawl is now available through Vercel Marketplace and Agent Marketplace for apps and agents that need live web data. The integration reduces setup friction for teams adding scraping, search, and structured retrieval to deployed AI workflows.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-08

Firecrawl adds Highlights to /scrape with 100x fewer tokens

Firecrawl added a Highlights mode to /scrape that returns matching text, code, or tables for a query instead of full-page payloads. The release matters because the company benchmarked the feature on 10,000 URLs against Exa Highlights and aims it at lower-token agent retrieval.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-06

Firecrawl adds Question format to /scrape with grounded answers and 100x fewer tokens

Firecrawl introduced a /scrape mode that answers a question directly from a URL instead of returning chunks for a separate retrieval loop. It targets docs and pricing pages, and teams should use it when they want grounded answers with lower token usage.

newsSECONDARY2026-04-21

OpenRouter adds Firecrawl web search with full-page markdown grounding

OpenRouter added Firecrawl as a search provider, letting models ground responses in scraped full web pages instead of snippet-only search. The launch folds crawling into the existing plugin settings flow and includes a capped free plan on the Firecrawl side.

releaseSECONDARY2026-04-16

Hermes Agent launches Tool Gateway with 300+ models and bundled tools

Hermes Agent added Tool Gateway, bundling 300+ models with web, browser, image, terminal, and TTS tools behind one subscription. Firecrawl, Browser Use, Fal image models, and Gemini Voice shipped at launch.

releasePRIMARY2026-03-25

Firecrawl launches /interact for natural-language browser actions

Firecrawl’s new /interact endpoint lets agents click, fill, scroll, and keep live browser sessions right after /scrape. It shortens the path from page extraction to web automation, but Playwright remains the better fit when you need deterministic full-session control.

workflowSECONDARY2026-03-21

OpenCode adds CloudShell workflow that reuses AWS auth and Bedrock models

OpenCode can now run from AWS CloudShell via npx and inherit AWS auth plus Bedrock models; the same update also brought Firecrawl, India billing, and heap-snapshot debugging. It is becoming a real ops workflow, not just a local terminal toy.