Firecrawl hits 198k GitHub stars: turning web pages into Markdown for AI agents
NielsRogge · x · 2026-11-04
Niels Rogge highlights Firecrawl, an open-source scraping/search API that feeds web data to AI agents, now at 198k GitHub stars and 10.5k forks.
- Converts external web pages into Markdown so agents can consume them; a PDF reader shows both the original and Markdown versions
- AGPL-3.0 licensed, self-hostable via Docker Compose
- Ecosystem includes a CLI, skills, and workflows alongside the core API
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