firecrawl-search

Web search with optional full-page content extraction from results. Web search with optional content scraping. Returns search results as JSON, optionally with full page content. - Returns real search results as JSON with optional --scrape flag to fetch complete page markdown for each result, avoiding redundant fetches - Supports filtering by source type (web, images, news), category (GitHub, research, PDF), time range (past hour/day/week/month/year), location, and country - Use --limit to control result count and --scrape-formats to customize output formats when extracting full content - Part of a workflow escalation pattern: search first to discover URLs, then use dedicated scrape/map/crawl skills for deeper extraction - 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 → interact - --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 - firecrawl-scrape — scrape a specific URL - firecrawl-map — discover URLs within a site -...