Self-hosting Firecrawl

Getting Started

First, clone this repository and copy the example env file from api folder .env.example to .env.

git clone https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl.git
cd firecrawl
cp ./apps/api/.env.example ./.env

For running the simplest version of FireCrawl, edit the USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION on .env to not use the database authentication.

USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION=false

Update the Redis URL in the .env file to align with the Docker configuration:

REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379

Once that's complete, you can simply run the following commands to get started:

docker compose up

This will run a local instance of Firecrawl which can be accessed at http://localhost:3002.