firecrawl-instruct

Interact with scraped pages in a live browser session. Scrape a page first, then use natural language prompts or code to click, fill forms, navigate, and extract data. Use --profile on the scrape to persist browser state (cookies, localStorage) across scrapes: Read-only reconnect (no writes to profile state): - Content requires interaction: clicks, form fills, pagination, login - scrape failed because content is behind JavaScript interaction - You need to navigate a multi-step flow - Last resort in the workflow escalation pattern : search → scrape → map → crawl → instruct - Never use instruct for web searches — use search instead - Always scrape first — interact requires a scrape ID from a previous firecrawl scrape call - The scrape ID is saved automatically, so you don't need --scrape-id for subsequent interact calls - Use firecrawl interact stop to free resources when done - For parallel work, scrape multiple pages and interact with each using --scrape-id - firecrawl-scrape — try scrape first, escalate to instruct only when needed - firecrawl-search — for web searches (never use instruct for searching) - firecrawl-agent — AI-powered extraction (less manual control)