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FirecrawlCrawlWebsiteTool

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Description

Firecrawl is a platform for crawling and convert any website into clean markdown or structured data.

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Installation

• Get an API key from firecrawl.dev and set it in environment variables (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY).
• Install the Firecrawl SDK along with crewai[tools] package:

pip install firecrawl-py 'crewai[tools]'

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Example

Utilize the FirecrawlScrapeFromWebsiteTool as follows to allow your agent to load websites:

from crewai_tools import FirecrawlCrawlWebsiteTool

tool = FirecrawlCrawlWebsiteTool(url='firecrawl.dev')

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Arguments

• api_key: Optional. Specifies Firecrawl API key. Defaults is the FIRECRAWL_API_KEY environment variable.
• url: The base URL to start crawling from.
• page_options: Optional.
  • onlyMainContent: Optional. Only return the main content of the page excluding headers, navs, footers, etc.
  • includeHtml: Optional. Include the raw HTML content of the page. Will output a html key in the response.
• crawler_options: Optional. Options for controlling the crawling behavior.
  • includes: Optional. URL patterns to include in the crawl.
  • exclude: Optional. URL patterns to exclude from the crawl.
  • generateImgAltText: Optional. Generate alt text for images using LLMs (requires a paid plan).
  • returnOnlyUrls: Optional. If true, returns only the URLs as a list in the crawl status. Note: the response will be a list of URLs inside the data, not a list of documents.
  • maxDepth: Optional. Maximum depth to crawl. Depth 1 is the base URL, depth 2 includes the base URL and its direct children, and so on.
  • mode: Optional. The crawling mode to use. Fast mode crawls 4x faster on websites without a sitemap but may not be as accurate and shouldn’t be used on heavily JavaScript-rendered websites.
  • limit: Optional. Maximum number of pages to crawl.
  • timeout: Optional. Timeout in milliseconds for the crawling operation.