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Firecrawl

Turns any website into a structured data stream for your workflows, extracts specific fields from pages using natural language, and crawls entire domains to keep your knowledge base current.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Firecrawl integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Firecrawl calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Firecrawl data, across all 29 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Firecrawl access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Firecrawl, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Firecrawl is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Firecrawl.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Firecrawl action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Firecrawl, and when to use it.

Scrape URL
Use this to pull content from a single page. It returns clean markdown or HTML for the agent to process.
Extract structured data
Pull specific data points from a page using a JSON schema or a natural language prompt. Use this for pricing or contact info.
Start web crawl
Initiate a full site crawl from a base URL. Use this to index an entire domain for a knowledge base.
Map multiple URLs
Discover all available links on a site starting from a base URL. Use this to build a list of pages to scrape.
Search
Run a web search and scrape the top results. Use this when you do not have a specific URL but need current web data.
Get crawl status
Check the progress of an active crawl job using the job ID to see if it is finished or failed.
Cancel crawl job
Stop a running or queued crawl job immediately using its ID to save credits.
List crawl jobs
Pull a history of recent crawl jobs and their final outcomes.
Get crawl data
Retrieve the final results of a completed crawl job for processing.
Update crawl config
Modify the rules or filters for a pending crawl job.
Clear crawl cache
Force Firecrawl to fetch a fresh version of a page instead of using a cached copy.
Validate URL
Check if a URL is accessible and crawlable before starting a large job.
Cancel a crawl job
Cancels an active or queued web crawl job using its id; attempting to cancel completed, failed, or previously canceled jobs will not change their state.
Start a web crawl
Initiates a firecrawl web crawl from a given url, applying various filtering and content extraction rules, and polls until the job is complete; ensure the url is accessible and any regex patterns for paths are valid.
Get the status of a crawl job
Retrieves the current status, progress, and details of a web crawl job, using the job id obtained when the crawl was initiated.

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Frequently asked questions

Firecrawl uses a headless browser to render pages before extracting the content. This means it can execute JavaScript and wait for dynamic elements to load just like a real user would in a browser. When Ceven triggers a scrape action, Firecrawl renders the DOM and then converts that final state into clean markdown. This prevents the common issue where a scraper only sees a loading screen or a blank page because the content is injected via a framework like React or Vue. You can also specify pre scrape actions if the agent needs to click a button or scroll down before the data becomes visible.
Scraping is a surgical action where the agent targets one specific URL to pull its content immediately. This is best for known pages or single data points. Crawling is a broader process where Firecrawl starts at one URL and follows links to discover and scrape other pages across the same domain. Crawling is an asynchronous process, meaning the agent starts the job, receives a job ID, and then polls for the status until the entire site is indexed. Use scraping for real time data needs and crawling for building large datasets or indexing an entire company website for an LLM.
Firecrawl includes built in proxy rotation and browser fingerprinting to mimic human behavior and avoid common bot detection systems. It handles headers and cookies automatically to reduce the chance of being blocked. However, highly sophisticated anti bot protections like Cloudflare Turnstile or advanced CAPTCHAs can still block requests. In these cases, the agent will receive an error indicating the page was blocked. For most public business websites and blogs, Firecrawl works seamlessly, but it is not a guaranteed bypass for sites that explicitly forbid all automated access via strict security firewalls.
Instead of writing complex CSS selectors or regex, you provide a natural language prompt or a JSON schema. For example, you can tell Firecrawl to extract all product names and prices into a list. Firecrawl then uses an LLM to parse the HTML and map the found text to your requested keys. This makes the integration resilient to website layout changes. If a site moves the price from the left column to the right column, the extraction still works because the agent is looking for the concept of a price rather than a specific HTML tag.
Yes, Firecrawl employs a credit system that varies by tier. Each page scraped or crawled consumes credits, and large scale crawls can deplete these quickly. A specific quirk to note is that the free tier has strict rate limits on concurrent crawl jobs, meaning you can only run one or two jobs at a time before receiving a 429 error. If you attempt to launch twenty simultaneous crawls on a basic plan, most will fail immediately. For high volume needs, you must upgrade to a professional plan to increase your concurrency limits and total monthly credit allotment.
By default, Firecrawl converts HTML into clean markdown. Markdown is preferred because it preserves the structural hierarchy of the page, such as headers and lists, while removing the noise of scripts and styles. This significantly reduces the token count when the data is passed to an LLM. However, you can also request raw HTML if you need to perform your own parsing, or structured JSON if you used the extraction endpoint. Ceven handles the conversion automatically based on the action you choose in the workflow.
The map action explores a website to find all reachable URLs without scraping the full content of every page. It looks at sitemaps and follows internal links to build a comprehensive list of pages. You can filter this list using a search query to only find pages that contain certain keywords. This is incredibly useful for the agent to identify which specific pages are worth the credit cost of a full scrape. Instead of crawling ten thousand pages, the agent can map the site, find the fifty most relevant pages, and only scrape those.
Scraping a URL provides real time data as it fetches the current live version of the page. Crawling is slightly different because it takes time to traverse a site, so the data is as fresh as the last time the crawl job finished. Firecrawl does use some caching to improve speed and reduce load on target servers, but you can use the clear cache action to force a fresh fetch. This ensures that if a price changes on a website, your agent is seeing the current value and not a version from an hour ago.

Alternatives to Firecrawl

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