Set up a recurring Firecrawl website monitor via the firecrawl CLI

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Documented steps

  1. Install the CLI: npm install -g firecrawl-cli (note the package/binary name in current docs).
  2. Authenticate once: firecrawl login --api-key fc-YOUR-API-KEY.
  3. Create a page monitor: firecrawl monitor create --name 'Stripe pricing' --page https://stripe.com/pricing --schedule 'every 6 hours' --goal 'Alert when pricing changes'.
  4. For a website crawl monitor, point at the site and set the schedule; inspect the created monitor id.
  5. Confirm the schedule and targets with the list/get monitor command before relying on it.
  6. Docs: https://www.firecrawl.dev/monitor and https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring
  7. Official docs: https://www.firecrawl.dev/monitor; https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring

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