Fixes + Improvements (no version bump)

• Fixed 500 errors that would happen often in some crawled websites and when servers were at capacity
• Fixed an issue where v1 crawl status wouldn’t properly return pages over 10mb
• Fixed an issue where screenshot would return undefined
• Push improvements that reduce speed times when a scraper fails

Introducing Actions

Interact with pages before extracting data, unlocking more data from every site!

Firecrawl now allows you to perform various actions on a web page before scraping its content. This is particularly useful for interacting with dynamic content, navigating through pages, or accessing content that requires user interaction.

• Version 1.5.x of the Node SDK now supports type-safe Actions.
• Actions are now available in the REST API and Python SDK (no version bumps required!).

Here is a python example of how to use actions to navigate to google.com, search for Firecrawl, click on the first result, and take a screenshot.

from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp

app = FirecrawlApp(api_key="fc-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Scrape a website:
scrape_result = app.scrape_url('firecrawl.dev', 
    params={
        'formats': ['markdown', 'html'], 
        'actions': [
            {"type": "wait", "milliseconds": 2000},
            {"type": "click", "selector": "textarea[title=\"Search\"]"},
            {"type": "wait", "milliseconds": 2000},
            {"type": "write", "text": "firecrawl"},
            {"type": "wait", "milliseconds": 2000},
            {"type": "press", "key": "ENTER"},
            {"type": "wait", "milliseconds": 3000},
            {"type": "click", "selector": "h3"},
            {"type": "wait", "milliseconds": 3000},
            {"type": "screenshot"}
        ]
    }
)
print(scrape_result)

For more examples, check out our API Reference.

Mid-September Updates

Typesafe LLM Extract

• E2E Type Safety for LLM Extract in Node SDK version 1.5.x.
• 10x cheaper in the cloud version. From 50 to 5 credits per extract.
• Improved speed and reliability.

Rust SDK v1.0.0

• Rust SDK v1 is finally here! Check it out here.

Map Improved Limits

• Map smart results limits increased from 100 to 1000.

Faster scrape

• Scrape speed improved by 200ms-600ms depending on the website.

Launching changelog

• For now on, for every new release, we will be creating a changelog entry here.

Improvements

• Lots of improvements pushed to the infra and API. For all Mid-September changes, refer to the commits here.

September 8, 2024

Patch Notes (No version bump)

• Fixed an issue where some of the custom header params were not properly being set in v1 API. You can now pass headers to your requests just fine.

Firecrawl V1 is here! With that we introduce a more reliable and developer friendly API.

Here is what’s new:

• Output Formats for /scrape: Choose what formats you want your output in.
• New /map endpoint: Get most of the URLs of a webpage.
• Developer friendly API for /crawl/id status.
• 2x Rate Limits for all plans.
• Go SDK and Rust SDK.
• Teams support.
• API Key Management in the dashboard.
• onlyMainContent is now default to true.
• /crawl webhooks and websocket support.

Learn more about it here.

Start using v1 right away at https://firecrawl.dev