firecrawl-crawl

Bulk extract content from entire websites or site sections with depth and path filtering.

- Crawls pages following links up to configurable depth limits and page counts, with path inclusion/exclusion filters to scope extraction

- Supports async job polling or synchronous waiting with progress display via --wait and --progress flags

- Offers concurrency control, request delays, and JSON output formatting for integration into agent workflows

- Part of a four-step escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl, used when single-page extraction is insufficient

firecrawl crawl

Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.

When to use

- You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all /docs/)

- You want to extract an entire site section

- Step 4 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact

Quick start

# Crawl a docs section
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --include-paths /docs --limit 50 --wait -o .firecrawl/crawl.json

# Full crawl with depth limit
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --max-depth 3 --wait --progress -o .firecrawl/crawl.json