Firecrawl Download

firecrawl/firecrawl-download

| Download an entire website as local files — markdown, screenshots, or multiple formats per page. Use this skill when the user wants to save a site locally, download documentation for offline use, bulk-save pages as files, or says "download the site", "save as local files", "offline copy", "download all the docs", or "save for reference". Combines site mapping and scraping into organized local directories.

This is a copy. The original lives at aiskillstore/firecrawl-download.

776 tokens

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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instructions only

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how many repositories repackaged it

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl-download

What it tells the agent to use

found in the instruction text

Bash runs shell commands — read the instruction before connecting

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

firecrawl download

> Experimental. Convenience command that combines map + scrape to save an entire site as local files.

Maps the site first to discover pages, then scrapes each one into nested directories under .firecrawl/. All scrape options work with download. Always pass -y to skip the confirmation prompt.

When to use

You want to save an entire site (or section) to local files
You need offline access to documentation or content
Bulk content extraction with organized file structure

Quick start

# Interactive wizard (picks format, screenshots, paths for you)
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com

# With screenshots
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com --screenshot --limit 20 -y

# Multiple formats (each saved as its own file per page)
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com --format markdown,links --screenshot --limit 20 -y
# Creates per page: index.md + links.txt + screenshot.png

# Filter to specific sections
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com --include-paths "/features,/sdks"

# Skip translations
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com --exclude-paths "/zh,/ja,/fr,/es,/pt-BR"

# Full combo
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com \
  --include-paths "/features,/sdks" \
  --exclude-paths "/zh,/ja" \
  --only-main-content \
  --screenshot \
  -y

Download options

| Option | Description |

| ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |

| --limit <n> | Max pages to download |

| --search <query> | Filter URLs by search query |

| --include-paths <paths> | Only download matching paths |

| --exclude-paths <paths> | Skip matching paths |

| --allow-subdomains | Include subdomain pages |

| -y | Skip confirmation prompt (always use in automated flows) |

Scrape options (all work with download)

-f <formats>, -H, -S, --screenshot, --full-page-screenshot, --only-main-content, --include-tags, --exclude-tags, --wait-for, --max-age, --country, --languages

Repackaged in 1 other repositories

same content, different owner

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take firecrawl/firecrawl-download from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.