firecrawl crawl#

Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.

When to use#

• You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all /docs/)
• You want to extract an entire site section
• Step 4 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact

Quick start#

bash

# Crawl a docs section
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --include-paths /docs --limit 50 --wait -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Full crawl with depth limit
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --max-depth 3 --wait --progress -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Check status of a running crawl
firecrawl crawl <job-id>

Options#

OptionDescription--waitWait for crawl to complete before returning--progressShow progress while waiting--limit <n>Max pages to crawl--max-depth <n>Max link depth to follow--include-paths <paths>Only crawl URLs matching these paths--exclude-paths <paths>Skip URLs matching these paths--delay <ms>Delay between requests--max-concurrency <n>Max parallel crawl workers--prettyPretty print JSON output-o, --output <path>Output file path

Tips#

• Always use --wait when you need the results immediately. Without it, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
• Use --include-paths to scope the crawl — don't crawl an entire site when you only need one section.
• Crawl consumes credits per page. Check firecrawl credit-usage before large crawls.

See also#

• firecrawl-scrape — scrape individual pages
• firecrawl-map — discover URLs before deciding to crawl
• firecrawl-download — download site to local files (uses map + scrape)