firecrawl download (invoked as firecrawl x download)
SkillWeb & browsingThis skill gives your AI the ability to work with live web content. Once added, your AI can scrape web pages, search the web, and browse site content to answer questions with current information.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add the skill, then ask your AI to look up or pull content from a web page or search topic. It will scrape, search, or browse the web to get you the answer.
Then ask your AI: use the firecrawl download (invoked as firecrawl x download) skill
What your AI can do with it
- Scrape the contents of any web page
- Search the web for relevant pages
- Browse through site content to explore multiple pages
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by firecrawl/cli in skills/firecrawl-download/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Experimental.
downloadis available under thefirecrawl xcommand group.
Prerequisite: download requires authentication (no keyless free tier); without credentials the CLI prompts an interactive login.
Maps the site origin first to discover pages, then scrapes each one into nested directories under .firecrawl/. Use --include-paths to scope a non-root URL to one section. Automated runs always pass -y — without it the command opens an interactive wizard that blocks on a prompt.
Quick start
# With screenshots
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --screenshot --limit 20 -y
# Multiple formats (each saved as its own file per page)
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --format markdown,links --screenshot --limit 20 -y
# Creates per page: index.md + links.txt + screenshot.png
# Filter to specific sections
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --include-paths "/features,/sdks" -y
# Skip translations
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --exclude-paths "/zh,/ja,/fr,/es,/pt-BR" -y
Run firecrawl x download --help for the full option list, including which scrape options download supports.
Done when: the command exits successfully and the expected files exist under .firecrawl/.
See also
- firecrawl-map — just discover URLs without downloading
- firecrawl-scrape — scrape individual pages
- firecrawl-crawl — bulk extract as JSON (not local files)
- firecrawl-build-scrape — building bulk extraction into an app instead of running it here
Signals
- GitHub stars
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- Forks
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Installs
- 79k installs
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
firecrawl-download- Source
- github.com/firecrawl/cli