Firecrawl Scrape

firecrawl/firecrawl-scrape

| Extract clean markdown from any URL, including JavaScript-rendered SPAs. Use this skill whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content, says "scrape", "grab", "fetch", "pull", "get the page", "extract from this URL", or "read this webpage". Handles JS-rendered pages, multiple concurrent URLs, and returns LLM-optimized markdown. Use this instead of WebFetch for any webpage content extraction.

935 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

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how many repositories repackaged it

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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

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

What it tells the agent to use

found in the instruction text

Bash runs shell commands — read the instruction before connecting

WebFetch fetches pages from the network

Grep reads your files

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

firecrawl scrape

Scrape one or more URLs. Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown. Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently.

When to use

You have a specific URL and want its content
The page is static or JS-rendered (SPA)
Step 2 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact

Quick start

# Basic markdown extraction
firecrawl scrape "<url>" -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Main content only, no nav/footer
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --only-main-content -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Wait for JS to render, then scrape
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --wait-for 3000 -o .firecrawl/page.md

# Multiple URLs (each saved to .firecrawl/)
firecrawl scrape https://example.com https://example.com/blog https://example.com/docs

# Get markdown and links together
firecrawl scrape "<url>" --format markdown,links -o .firecrawl/page.json

# Ask a question about the page
firecrawl scrape "https://example.com/pricing" --query "What is the enterprise plan price?"

Options

| Option | Description |

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

| -f, --format <formats> | Output formats: markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshot, json |

| -Q, --query <prompt> | Ask a question about the page content (5 credits) |

| -H | Include HTTP headers in output |

| --only-main-content | Strip nav, footer, sidebar — main content only |

| --wait-for <ms> | Wait for JS rendering before scraping |

| --include-tags <tags> | Only include these HTML tags |

| --exclude-tags <tags> | Exclude these HTML tags |

| --redact-pii | Redact personally identifiable information from output |

| -o, --output <path> | Output file path |

Tips

Prefer plain scrape over --query. Scrape to a file, then use grep, head, or read the markdown directly — you can search and reason over the full content yourself. Use --query only when you want a single targeted answer without saving the page (costs 5 extra credits).
Try scrape before interact. Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Only escalate to interact when you need interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination).
Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check firecrawl --status for your concurrency limit.
Single format outputs raw content. Multiple formats (e.g., --format markdown,links) output JSON.
Always quote URLs — shell interprets ? and & as special characters.
Naming convention: .firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take firecrawl/firecrawl-scrape 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.