Scrape a single URL to markdown, HTML, or structured JSON with the Firecrawl v2 API

domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 6 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-cloud-0722
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Documented steps

  1. POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape with header Authorization: Bearer <api key>
  2. Body: JSON with required 'url' and optional 'formats' array — supported format types include markdown, summary, html, rawHtml, links, images, screenshot, json, changeTracking, branding, product, menu, audio, video
  3. Useful options: onlyMainContent (bool, default true, strips nav/headers/footers), onlyCleanContent (bool, LLM-cleaned markdown), headers (object), timeout (ms), mobile (bool), blockAds (bool)
  4. Caching: maxAge (ms, default 172800000 = 2 days) returns a cached snapshot if younger than maxAge; minAge exists to require a minimum snapshot age; storeInCache controls whether the result is cached
  5. Parse response: success (bool), data object containing the requested formats (markdown, html, links, metadata, ...), error string on failure
  6. Current reference: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/scrape

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