Search the web and get full page content with the Firecrawl Search API

domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Authenticate with 'Authorization: Bearer fc-...'.
  2. POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search with {"query":"machine learning", "limit":10}.
  3. Pass scrapeOptions.formats to get content per result, e.g. {"formats":[{"type":"markdown"}]}; default is results-only (url,title,description). Other formats include summary.
  4. Control scope with sources (web/images/news, default web), location + country (ISO code, e.g. US/DE), categories (github/research/pdf), includeDomains/excludeDomains, and tbs for time-based filters (qdr:h/d/w/m/y, or cdr:1,cd_min,cd_max for a date range).
  5. Read the response data — data.web[] per result with url/title/description (+ markdown/html if requested) and metadata; also check creditsUsed and id.
  6. Set limit max 100; highlight matching query passages (highlights defaults true) or set false for provider snippets.

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