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Integrate Firecrawl with OpenClaw to give your agents the ability to scrape, search, crawl, extract, and interact with the web — all through the Firecrawl CLI.

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Why Firecrawl + OpenClaw

  • No local browser needed — every session runs in a remote, isolated sandbox. No Chromium installs, no driver conflicts, no RAM pressure on your machine.
  • Real parallelism — run many browser sessions at once without local resource fights. Agents can browse in batches across multiple sites simultaneously.
  • Secure by default — navigation, DOM evaluation, and extraction all happen inside disposable sandboxes, not on your workstation.
  • Better token economics — agents get back clean artifacts (snapshots, extracted fields) instead of hauling giant DOMs and driver logs into the context window.
  • Full web toolkit — scrape, search, and browser automation all through a single CLI that your agent already knows how to use.

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Setup

Tell your agent to install the Firecrawl CLI, authenticate and initialize the skill with this command: 
npx -y firecrawl-cli init --browser --all
  • --all installs the Firecrawl skill to every detected AI coding agent
  • --browser opens the browser for Firecrawl authentication automatically
or install everything seperately: 
npm install -g firecrawl-cli
firecrawl init skills
firecrawl login --browser
# Or, skip the browser and provide your API key directly:
export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY="fc-YOUR-API-KEY"
Verify everything is set up correctly: 
firecrawl --status
Once the skill is installed, your OpenClaw agent automatically discovers and uses Firecrawl commands — no extra configuration needed.

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Scrape

Scrape a single page and extract its content: 
firecrawl https://example.com --only-main-content
Get specific formats: 
firecrawl https://example.com --format markdown,links --pretty
Search the web and optionally scrape the results: 
firecrawl search "latest AI funding rounds 2025" --limit 10

# Search and scrape the results
firecrawl search "OpenClaw documentation" --scrape --scrape-formats markdown

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Browser

Launch a remote browser session for interactive automation. Each session runs in an isolated sandbox — no local Chromium install required. agent-browser is pre-installed with 40+ commands. 
# Shorthand: auto-launches a session if none is active
firecrawl browser "open https://news.ycombinator.com"
firecrawl browser "snapshot"
firecrawl browser "scrape"
firecrawl browser close
Interact with page elements using refs from the snapshot: 
firecrawl browser "open https://example.com"
firecrawl browser "snapshot"
# snapshot returns @ref IDs — use them to interact
firecrawl browser "click @e5"
firecrawl browser "fill @e3 'search query'"
firecrawl browser "scrape"
firecrawl browser close
The shorthand form (firecrawl browser "...") sends commands to agent-browser automatically and auto-launches a sandbox session if there isn’t one active. Your agent issues intent-level actions (open, click, fill, snapshot, scrape) instead of writing Playwright code.

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Example: tell your agent

Here are some prompts you can give your OpenClaw agent:
  • “Use Firecrawl to scrape https://example.com and summarize the main content.”
  • “Search for the latest OpenAI news and give me a summary of the top 5 results.”
  • “Use Firecrawl Browser to open Hacker News, get the top 5 stories, and the first 10 comments on each.”
  • “Crawl the docs at https://docs.firecrawl.dev and save them to a file.”

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Further reading