Firecrawl sells the web-data layer that AI agents run on: one API to search the web, scrape any page into clean markdown or schema-defined JSON, and — since 2026 — interact with pages by clicking, filling forms and navigating multi-step flows. The open-source crawler is among the most-starred repositories in its category and doubles as the funnel for the hosted product, where the proprietary Fire-engine handles rendering, proxies and anti-bot work. The company was founded in 2022 as SideGuide Technologies and pivoted out of Mendable, an AI chat-for-docs product used by Snapchat, MongoDB and DoorDash, after the team found the crawling substrate was the more valuable business. It raised a $14.5M Series A in August 2025 led by Nexus Venture Partners, said it was already profitable, and counts Shopify, Apple, Canva, Replit, Zapier and Lovable among its users. Its strategic bet is on becoming the paid, consented alternative to adversarial scraping — a Wikimedia partnership and stated plans to pay publishers when AI uses their content.

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• Firecrawl /scrape - single-page fetch returning LLM-ready markdown, HTML, screenshots or schema-defined JSON
• Firecrawl /search - web search returning full page content in one call
• Firecrawl /interact - agent-driven clicking, form filling and multi-step navigation
• Firecrawl /crawl and /map - whole-site traversal and URL discovery
• Fire-engine - proprietary hosted rendering, proxy and anti-bot infrastructure behind the managed API
• Firecrawl MCP server, CLI and SDKs (Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, Java, Elixir)

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