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# 🔥 Firecrawl
Crawl and convert any website into LLM-ready markdown. Build by [Mendable.ai](https://mendable.ai?ref=gfirecrawl)
*This repo is still in early development and its main purpose is to help improve accuracy of LLM response given clean data.*
## What is Firecrawl?
[Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.dev?ref=github) is an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown. We crawl all accessible subpages and give you clean markdown for each. No sitemap required.
## How to use it?
We provide an easy to use API with our hosted version. You can find the playground and documentation [here](https://firecrawl.com/playground). You can also self host the backend if you'd like.
- [x] [API](https://firecrawl.com/playground)
- [x] [Python SDK](https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl/tree/main/apps/python-sdk)
- [x] [Langchain Integration 🦜🔗](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/document_loaders/firecrawl/)
- [x] [Llama Index Integration 🦙](https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/)
- [ ] JS SDK - Coming Soon
- [ ] LangchainJS - Coming Soon
Self-host. To self-host refer to guide [here](https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl/blob/main/SELF_HOST.md).
### API Key
To use the API, you need to sign up on [Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.com) and get an API key.
### Crawling
Used to crawl a URL and all accessible subpages. This submits a crawl job and returns a job ID to check the status of the crawl.
```bash
curl -X POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v0/crawl \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{
"url": "https://mendable.ai"
}'
```
Returns a jobId
```json
{ "jobId": "1234-5678-9101" }
```
### Check Crawl Job
Used to check the status of a crawl job and get its result.
```bash
curl -X GET https://api.firecrawl.dev/v0/crawl/status/1234-5678-9101 \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
```
```json
{
"status": "completed",
"current": 22,
"total": 22,
"data": [
{
"content": "Raw Content ",
"markdown": "# Markdown Content",
"provider": "web-scraper",
"metadata": {
"title": "Mendable | AI for CX and Sales",
"description": "AI for CX and Sales",
"language": null,
"sourceURL": "https://www.mendable.ai/",
}
]
}
```
## Using Python SDK
### Installing Python SDK
```bash
pip install firecrawl-py
```
### Crawl a website
```python
from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp
app = FirecrawlApp(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
crawl_result = app.crawl_url('mendable.ai', {'crawlerOptions': {'excludes': ['blog/*']}})
# Get the markdown
for result in crawl_result:
print(result['markdown'])
```
### Scraping a URL
To scrape a single URL, use the `scrape_url` method. It takes the URL as a parameter and returns the scraped data as a dictionary.
```python
url = 'https://example.com'
scraped_data = app.scrape_url(url)
```
## Contributing
We love contributions! Please read our [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) before submitting a pull request.