firecrawl-search

Web search with full page content extraction. Use this skill whenever the user asks to search the web, find articles, research a topic, look something up, find recent news, discover sources, or says "search for", "find me", "look up", "what are people saying about", or "find articles about". Returns real search results with optional full-page markdown — not just snippets. Provides capabilities beyond Claude's built-in WebSearch.

firecrawl search

Web search with optional content scraping. Returns search results as JSON, optionally with full page content.

When to use

You don't have a specific URL yet
You need to find pages, answer questions, or discover sources
First step in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → browser

Quick start

# Basic search
firecrawl search "your query" -o .firecrawl/result.json --json

# Search and scrape full page content from results
firecrawl search "your query" --scrape -o .firecrawl/scraped.json --json

# News from the past day
firecrawl search "your query" --sources news --tbs qdr:d -o .firecrawl/news.json --json

Options

Option	Description
`--limit <n>`	Max number of results
`--sources <web,images,news>`	Source types to search
`--categories <github,research,pdf>`	Filter by category
`--tbs <qdr:h\|d\|w\|m\|y>`	Time-based search filter
`--location`	Location for search results
`--country <code>`	Country code for search
`--scrape`	Also scrape full page content for each result
`--scrape-formats`	Formats when scraping (default: markdown)
`-o, --output <path>`	Output file path
`--json`	Output as JSON

Tips

--scrape fetches full content — don't re-scrape URLs from search results. This saves credits and avoids redundant fetches.
Always write results to .firecrawl/ with -o to avoid context window bloat.
Use jq to extract URLs or titles: jq -r '.data.web[].url' .firecrawl/search.json
Naming convention: .firecrawl/search-{query}.json or .firecrawl/search-{query}-scraped.json