firecrawl crawl

Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.

When to use

You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all /docs/)
You want to extract an entire site section
Step 4 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact

Quick start

# Crawl a docs section
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --include-paths /docs --limit 50 --wait -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Full crawl with depth limit
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --max-depth 3 --wait --progress -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Check status of a running crawl
firecrawl crawl <job-id>

Options

| Option | Description | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | --wait | Wait for crawl to complete before returning | | --progress | Show progress while waiting | | --limit <n> | Max pages to crawl | | --max-depth <n> | Max link depth to follow | | --include-paths <paths> | Only crawl URLs matching these paths | | --exclude-paths <paths> | Skip URLs matching these paths | | --delay <ms> | Delay between requests | | --max-concurrency <n> | Max parallel crawl workers | | --pretty | Pretty print JSON output | | -o, --output <path> | Output file path |

Tips

Always use --wait when you need the results immediately. Without it, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
Use --include-paths to scope the crawl — don't crawl an entire site when you only need one section.
Crawl consumes credits per page. Check firecrawl credit-usage before large crawls.

Firecrawl Crawl