# Firecrawl

> Firecrawl gives developers one API to search, scrape, crawl, parse, monitor, and interact with web content, returning structured data suited to AI applications. Born from the founders' difficulty feeding their earlier documentation chatbot, it has expanded from a web extraction tool into Alexandria, a system combining live pages, specialist indexes, connectors, and licensed data providers.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Caleb Peffer (Co-founder and CEO), Eric Ciarla (Co-founder), Nicolas Silberstein Camara (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Scrape, Crawl, Map and Search, Extract, Firecrawl v2, Interact, Parse
- **Notable:** More than 1.5 million users reported by Firecrawl in September 2026., 48,000 GitHub stars and 350,000 developer signups reported at the August 2025 Series A announcement., Developer Index launched in August 2026 with more than 70 million indexed artifacts.

## Products & services

- **Scrape, Crawl, Map and Search** — APIs for finding URLs, rendering and cleaning pages, and traversing sites into Markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON.
- **Extract** — Prompt-driven extraction of structured data from websites.
- **Firecrawl v2** — Updated API with faster scraping via caching, semantic crawling, summaries, and richer search.
- **Interact** — Persistent browser sessions for clicking, typing, navigation, and extraction from pages requiring interaction.
- **Parse** — Document parsing for PDFs, office files, and HTML uploads into structured output.
- **Monitor** — Scheduled checks and alerts for meaningful changes on pages or search targets.
- **Developer Index** — Specialist search across documentation, READMEs, issues, pull requests, and API specifications.
- **Alexandria** — A unified interface to live web results, specialist indexes, custom connectors, and official data providers.

## Achievements

- More than 1.5 million users reported by Firecrawl in September 2026.
- 48,000 GitHub stars and 350,000 developer signups reported at the August 2025 Series A announcement.
- Developer Index launched in August 2026 with more than 70 million indexed artifacts.
- Alexandria and a $75 million Series B announced September 22, 2026.
- Firecrawl reports a 21% answer-quality improvement over built-in web tools across an 845-task internal Alexandria evaluation; independently unverified.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Launched Alexandria and announced a $75 million Series B led by Smash Capital.
- **2026-08** — Launched Developer Index for coding-agent retrieval.
- **2026-04** — Launched Parse for uploaded documents.
- **2026-03** — Launched Interact for browser actions and persistent sessions.

## Links

- Website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firecrawl
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/firecrawl
- GitHub: https://github.com/firecrawl
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Firecrawl_dev
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firecrawl_dev/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28