Extract a URL's content as clean markdown, including JS-rendered pages. Use whenever the user provides a URL and wants its content; prefer over WebFetch.
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Extract clean markdown from any URL, including JavaScript-rendered single-page applications.
Handles both static pages and JS-rendered SPAs with configurable wait times for rendering Supports multiple concurrent URL scraping with output format options including markdown, HTML, links, and screenshots Includes content filtering options like main-content-only mode to strip navigation and footers, plus tag inclusion/exclusion Optional inline question answering via --query flag for targeted extraction without saving full page content
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This skill enables the agent to scrape web pages and convert them into LLM-optimized markdown using the Firecrawl CLI tool. It is authored by the vendor 'firecrawl' and uses their official tools. No malicious patterns or security risks were identified beyond the inherent risks of processing external web content.
Scrape one or more URLs. Returns clean, LLM-optimized markdown. Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently.
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 (markdown only; each saved to .firecrawl/; -o is ignored)
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?"
Run firecrawl scrape --help for the full option list.
Done when: you have the scraped content — on stdout, in your -o file, or under .firecrawl/ for multi-URL scrapes — and have inspected it with bounded reads (head, grep) to answer the request.
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).
Scrape handles static pages and JS-rendered SPAs. Escalate to interact when the page needs interaction (clicks, form fills, pagination) or scrape misses content.
Multiple URLs are scraped concurrently — check firecrawl --status for your concurrency limit. This mode saves markdown only and ignores -o; other requested formats are dropped. If markdown wasn't requested, the whole JSON response is written into the .md file.
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
See also
[firecrawl-search](../firecrawl-search/SKILL.md) — find pages when you don't have a URL
[firecrawl-interact](../firecrawl-interact/SKILL.md) — when scrape can't get the content, use interact to click, fill forms, etc.
[firecrawl-download](../firecrawl-download/SKILL.md) — bulk download an entire site to local files
