Firecrawl (YC S22) is an all-in-one developer platform for crawling & scraping web data for AI applications.
While founders Eric Ciarla, Caleb Peffer, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara were working on Mendable.ai, an early RAG platform used by companies like Coinbase, Snap, and MongoDB, they quickly realized that while web data was a valuable resource for AI, its quality was essential for success. Facing numerous challenges in building a reliable solution for various URLs, they found existing tools insufficient. They envisioned an API capable of crawling web pages, handling edge cases, and delivering up-to-date, user-friendly markdown. This led them to build Firecrawl.
With Firecrawl, developers at companies like Amazon, Nvidia, and Zapier are delegating scraping to us so they can focus on their core tasks - be it RAG, agents, or data processing. It's an open source API that transforms any web data into a clean, LLM-ready format for RAG, agentic tasks, or training. Since launching in April, Firecrawl has already gained 8000 stars on GitHub ⭐️
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