firecrawl/cli skills

Any live-web task via the Firecrawl CLI — including ordinary web research: searching the web, reading or extracting pages, gathering sources, discovering site URLs, bulk extraction, downloading a site, change alerts, or pages needing clicks/login — web only; local files route to firecrawl-parse. For US legal or regulatory questions use gov; for papers use firecrawl-research-index; for library, API, error, or bug questions use firecrawl-developer-index.

Find web sources with query-relevant page excerpts and optional full-page content, and discover workflows, data APIs, and indexes. Use for web research or finding structured records, listings, transcripts, and datasets. Supports semantic tool discovery, domain matching, and progressive catalogue browsing.

Read a known webpage or execute a discovered workflow or data-provider capability. Use for page content or structured results once the URL or tool is selected.

Autonomously navigate websites and extract structured data across pages. Use when the task requires navigation or no suitable ready-made workflow or data provider covers it.

Bulk-extract many pages from one site or section. Use for "crawl", "everything under /docs", or content spanning linked pages.

Discover and list a site's URLs, with search filtering. Use for "map the site" or "find the URL for" requests — when the user knows the site but not the exact page, or wants site structure.

Save a site or section as local files (markdown, screenshots). Use for "download the site", offline docs, or a local copy for reference.

Drive a live browser on a scraped page: click, fill forms, log in, paginate, infinite-scroll. Use when content requires interaction or a scrape failed or returned incomplete content.

Find a direct path to structured data through ready-made workflows, data APIs, and indexes. Follow the search skill to discover and inspect tools, then the scrape skill to execute them.

Searches current documentation, release notes, API references and public repository issues for libraries, frameworks, SDKs, APIs and CLI tools with `firecrawl developer`. Use before answering when the user names a version, is upgrading, pastes an error from a library or tool, or asks how to use, configure or migrate a specific library or API. Model knowledge stops at a training cutoff and misses new releases, renamed APIs, changed defaults and recent fixes, so when a version, option, error or API is unfamiliar or may have changed, look it up instead of guessing. Also checks whether a bug was fixed and in which release. Not for general programming concepts, code that uses no specific library, or refactoring code the user supplied.

Alert by webhook/email on web changes — use for "monitor/watch/track/alert me when": recurring checks on known URLs (prefer over repeated one-off scrapes) or web-wide watches for new results (queries + goal).

Convert a local file (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, …) to markdown, or answer questions about its content. Use whenever the input is a file path, not a URL.

Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstracts whose largest share is biomedical and life-science literature (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv), alongside arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math — using semantic search, semantic and structural expansion, and in-body verification. Use this skill for literature-finding and paper-retrieval tasks of any kind, including clinical, biomedical, drug, gene, disease, and other life-science questions, whether the answer is a single paper or a full multi-paper set. The index is reached only through the `firecrawl_research_*` MCP tools or the `firecrawl research` CLI subcommands. Calling `firecrawl_search` with its `categories` option set to `["research"]` is a different feature — it filters ordinary web search to research-affiliated websites (the list includes PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and publisher sites) and returns page results from them, without querying the paper records in this index.