Go Quickstart | Firecrawl

Prerequisites

Go 1.21+
A Firecrawl API key — get one free

Search the web

Firecrawl works with Go through the REST API. Use net/http to make requests directly.

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	apiKey := os.Getenv("FIRECRAWL_API_KEY")

	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{
		"query": "firecrawl web scraping",
		"limit": 5,
	})

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search", bytes.NewReader(body))
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "request failed: %v\n", err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	result, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(result))
}

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "web": [
      {
        "url": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev",
        "title": "Firecrawl Documentation",
        "markdown": "# Firecrawl\n\nFirecrawl is a web scraping API..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

Scrape a page

body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{
	"url": "https://example.com",
})

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape", bytes.NewReader(body))
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "request failed: %v\n", err)
	os.Exit(1)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

result, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(result))

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples...",
    "metadata": {
      "title": "Example Domain",
      "sourceURL": "https://example.com"
    }
  }
}

Interact with a page

Start a browser session, interact with the page using natural-language prompts, then close the session.

Step 1 — Scrape to start a session

body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{
	"url":     "https://www.amazon.com",
	"formats": []string{"markdown"},
})

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape", bytes.NewReader(body))
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "request failed: %v\n", err)
	os.Exit(1)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

var scrapeResult map[string]interface{}
json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&scrapeResult)

data := scrapeResult["data"].(map[string]interface{})
metadata := data["metadata"].(map[string]interface{})
scrapeId := metadata["scrapeId"].(string)
fmt.Println("scrapeId:", scrapeId)

Step 2 — Send interactions

// Search for a product
interactBody, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{
	"prompt": "Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max",
})

interactURL := fmt.Sprintf("https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape/%s/interact", scrapeId)
req, _ = http.NewRequest("POST", interactURL, bytes.NewReader(interactBody))
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

resp, err = http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "interact failed: %v\n", err)
	os.Exit(1)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

result, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(result))

// Click on the first result
interactBody, _ = json.Marshal(map[string]string{
	"prompt": "Click on the first result and tell me the price",
})

req, _ = http.NewRequest("POST", interactURL, bytes.NewReader(interactBody))
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

resp, err = http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "interact failed: %v\n", err)
	os.Exit(1)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

result, _ = io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(result))

Step 3 — Stop the session

req, _ = http.NewRequest("DELETE", interactURL, nil)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)

resp, err = http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "delete failed: %v\n", err)
	os.Exit(1)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

fmt.Println("Session stopped")

Reusable helper

For repeated use, wrap the API in a small helper:

type FirecrawlClient struct {
	APIKey  string
	BaseURL string
	Client  *http.Client
}

func NewFirecrawlClient(apiKey string) *FirecrawlClient {
	return &FirecrawlClient{
		APIKey:  apiKey,
		BaseURL: "https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2",
		Client:  &http.Client{},
	}
}

func (fc *FirecrawlClient) post(endpoint string, payload interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
	body, err := json.Marshal(payload)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", fc.BaseURL+endpoint, bytes.NewReader(body))
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+fc.APIKey)
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	resp, err := fc.Client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	return io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
}

func (fc *FirecrawlClient) Scrape(url string) ([]byte, error) {
	return fc.post("/scrape", map[string]string{"url": url})
}

func (fc *FirecrawlClient) Search(query string, limit int) ([]byte, error) {
	return fc.post("/search", map[string]interface{}{"query": query, "limit": limit})
}

A community Go SDK is available for the v1 API. See the Go SDK docs for details.

Next steps

Search docs

Search the web and get full page content

Scrape docs

All scrape options including formats, actions, and proxies

Interact docs

Click, fill forms, and extract dynamic content

API Reference

Complete REST API documentation

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Go

Prerequisites

Search the web

Scrape a page

Interact with a page

Step 1 — Scrape to start a session

Step 2 — Send interactions

Step 3 — Stop the session

Reusable helper

Next steps

Search docs

Scrape docs

Interact docs

API Reference

​Prerequisites

​Search the web

​Scrape a page

​Interact with a page

​Step 1 — Scrape to start a session

​Step 2 — Send interactions

​Step 3 — Stop the session

​Reusable helper

​Next steps

Search docs

Scrape docs

Interact docs

API Reference

Prerequisites

Search the web

Scrape a page

Interact with a page

Step 1 — Scrape to start a session

Step 2 — Send interactions

Step 3 — Stop the session

Reusable helper

Next steps