What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the manual effort of interacting with the Firecrawl API for web scraping, crawling, and data extraction tasks. It provides a structured CLI interface that handles authentication, rate limiting, retries, and output formatting, so you can focus on the data you need rather than API plumbing.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Web Scraping: Extract content from single URLs or batch-process multiple sites with options for ad-blocking, PDF parsing, and mobile emulation.
- Crawling: Discover and crawl entire websites with depth control, sitemap handling, and path filtering.
- Structured Extraction: Use LLMs to extract structured data from pages based on custom prompts.
- Deep Research: Run automated deep research operations on queries with configurable depth and URL limits.
- Agent-Optimized Output: JSON/compact modes, field selection, dry-run previews, and provenance tracking for AI agent consumption.
Quick Start
Use the pp-firecrawl skill to scrape https://example.com and return the extracted content as markdown.