firecrawl-search

Web search with optional full-page content extraction from results.

- 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

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 → interact

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