firecrawl-build-search

Web search discovery and source ranking for query-driven workflows.

- Designed for applications that start with a search query rather than a known URL, enabling discovery before extraction

- Returns ranked search results with snippets and URLs suitable for answer generation, competitive research, or topic exploration

- Integrates with downstream Firecrawl skills: escalate to /scrape for content extraction or /interact for pages requiring clicks and form submission

- Supports both hosted Firecrawl and self-hosted deployments via configurable API endpoint

Firecrawl Build Search

Use this when the application starts with a query, not a URL.

Use This When

- the user asks a question and the product must discover sources first

- the feature needs current web results

- you want to turn a search query into a shortlist of pages for later scraping

Default Recommendations

- Use /search first when URL discovery is part of the product behavior.

- Keep search and extraction conceptually separate unless scraping search results is clearly required.

- Prefer selective follow-up extraction over broad hydration when cost or latency matters.

Common Product Patterns