Firecrawl Web Scraping
Extract structured data from any website for aggregators and directories.
What Firecrawl Provides
Web Scraping: Extract data from any page
Structured Output: Clean JSON/markdown
JavaScript Support: Handles dynamic sites
Batch Processing: Crawl multiple pages
Getting Started
- 1Sign up at firecrawl.dev
- 2Get your API key from the dashboard
- 3Add to environment variables:
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
Example Prompts
- "Build a price comparison tool that scrapes product prices from multiple sites"
- "Create a job board that aggregates listings from company career pages"
- "Add a real estate aggregator that pulls listings from Zillow and Redfin"
- "Build a news aggregator that extracts articles from multiple publications"
Great For
- • Price tracking & comparison
- • Job aggregators
- • Real estate listings
- • Product catalogs
- • Lead generation
Best Practices
- • Respect robots.txt
- • Cache results to reduce calls
- • Handle rate limits gracefully
- • Validate scraped data