firecrawl parse
SkillWeb & browsingOnce this skill is added, your AI can scrape web pages, search the web, and browse site content. It is the Firecrawl agent skill, built on the Firecrawl CLI from the project's GitHub repository. It brings core web abilities to your agent so it can work with live pages instead of only what it already knows.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add the skill to your AI, then ask it to scrape a web page, run a web search, or read through a site.
Then ask your AI: use the firecrawl parse skill
What your AI can do with it
- Scrape web pages
- Search the web
- Browse site content
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by firecrawl/cli in skills/firecrawl-parse/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Turn a local document into clean markdown on disk. Supports PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML/HTM.
Quick start
Always save to .firecrawl/ with -o — parsed docs can be hundreds of KB and blow up context if streamed to stdout. Add .firecrawl/ to .gitignore.
mkdir -p .firecrawl
# File → markdown
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -o .firecrawl/paper.md
# AI summary
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -S -o .firecrawl/paper-summary.md
# Ask a question about the doc
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -Q "What are the main conclusions?" \
-o .firecrawl/paper-qa.md
Then read the output incrementally with head, grep, or rg.
Run firecrawl parse --help for the full option list.
Done when: the markdown, summary, or answer is written under .firecrawl/ and you have inspected it with bounded reads.
Tips
- Quote paths with spaces:
firecrawl parse "./My Doc.pdf" -o .firecrawl/mydoc.md. - Max upload size: 50 MB per file.
- Credits: ~1 per PDF page; HTML is 1 flat.
- Check
.firecrawl/before re-parsing the same file. - To check your credit balance (recommended for batch processing and similar workflows), use
firecrawl credit-usage(requires authentication).
See also
- firecrawl-scrape — same idea for URLs
- firecrawl-build-scrape — building document extraction into an app instead of running it here
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 629
- Forks
- 98
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Installs
- 50k installs
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
firecrawl-parse- Source
- github.com/firecrawl/cli