IT and Development
Firecrawl
7 min
firecrawl is an api that helps you crawl websites and convert their content into clean, structured data formats like markdown or json, making web scraping easier with the firecrawl app in make, you can crawl websites, receive crawl statuses, and extract websites in your firecrawl account requirements to use the firecrawl app in {{product name}} , you must have a firecrawl account connect firecrawl and {{product name}} to get started, you must first create a connection between firecrawl and {{product name}} , allowing the two services to communicate to create the connection, you need to firecrawl /#obtain your api key in firecrawl firecrawl /#create the connection in obtain your api key in firecrawl before you create the connection in {{product name}} , you should first obtain an api key in your firecrawl account to obtain the api key log in to your firecrawl account in the left sidebar, click api keys click + create enter a name for the api key and click create key copy the api key value and store it in a safe place you'll use this value in the api key connection field in {{product name}} create the connection in {{product name}} once you have your firecrawl api key, you're ready to create the connection in {{product name}} to create the connection log in to your {{product name}} account, add a firecrawl module to your {{scenario singular lowercase}} , and click create a connection optional in the connection name field, enter a name for the connection in the api key field, enter the api key you copied from your firecrawl account click save if prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access you've successfully created the connection and can now use the firecrawl app in your {{scenario plural lowercase}} if you want to make changes to your connection in the future, follow the steps here https //help make com/connect an application#tn2pj firecrawl modules after connecting to the firecrawl app, you can use the following types of modules to build your {{scenario plural lowercase}} actions crawl a website extract a website get crawl status get extract website make an api call map a website scrape a website searches search a website templates you can look for firecrawl templates in make's template gallery , where you'll find thousands of pre created {{scenario plural lowercase}} firecrawl resources firecrawl api documentation