firecrawl-scrape

SKILL.md

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

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