Does firecrawl use paid AI services?

Can use OpenAI. Its settings have keys for this paid API. Its README says whether one is required.

Is firecrawl still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v2.11.0, 5 months ago.

Can I trust firecrawl?

Widely used. 200k stars, 2 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to install firecrawl on Windows (firecrawl/firecrawl) · gitmanual

How to install on Windows

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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (AGPL-3.0).
Paid AI services?: Can use OpenAIIts settings have keys for this paid API. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v2.11.0, 5 months ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used200k stars, 2 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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Will it work on Windows?

Yes, it installs on your Windows

The README gives a pip install for Windows.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗firecrawl.devThe project's own site.

Also: Docs ↗

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs Redis, RabbitMQ and 70 settings in .env (20 secret).

Install with a package manager

pip

pip install firecrawl

RubyGems

gem install firecrawl-sdk

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Use it in your own project

This is a library: you add it to your code rather than opening an app.

Add to your JS project

npm install firecrawl

Add to your project

go get github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/apps/go-sdk

Add to your project

dotnet add package firecrawl-sdk

Add to your project

composer require firecrawl/firecrawl-sdk

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Redis service
1×RabbitMQ service

70× settings in .env

FIRECRAWL_API_KEYsecret
FIRECRAWL_API_URL
IDMUX_URL
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecret
OPENAI_API_KEYsecret
TEST_API_KEYsecret
TEST_URL
ENV
NUM_WORKERS_PER_QUEUE
PORT
HOST
REDIS_URL
REDIS_RATE_LIMIT_URLoptional
PLAYWRIGHT_MICROSERVICE_URLoptional
USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION
MCP_ACTION_LOG_STORAGE_ENABLED
MCP_ACTION_LOG_WRITES_ENABLED
MCP_ACTION_LOG_SECRETsecret
MCP_DELEGATED_CREDENTIAL_SECRETsecret
VERCEL_MARKETPLACE_INTEGRATION_ID
KEYLESS_SIGNUP_LINK_KEYSsecret
SEARCHAPI_API_KEYsecret
SEARCHAPI_ENGINE
CRAWL_CONCURRENT_REQUESTSoptional
MAX_CONCURRENT_JOBS
BROWSER_POOL_SIZE
SUPABASE_ANON_TOKENsecret
SUPABASE_URL
SUPABASE_SERVICE_TOKENsecret
GCS_SCREENSHOT_RESIGN_BEFORE
RATE_LIMIT_TEST_API_KEY_SCRAPEsecret
RATE_LIMIT_TEST_API_KEY_CRAWLsecret
SCRAPING_BEE_API_KEYsecret
TYPESAFE_API_KEYsecret
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_BASE_URLoptional
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_API_KEYsecretoptional
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_MODELoptional
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_ROLLOUT_PERCENToptional
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_SHADOW_PERCENToptional
EXTRACTION_PROVIDER_TEAM_IDSoptional
BULL_AUTH_KEYsecretoptional
LLAMAPARSE_API_KEYsecretoptional
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URLoptional
POSTHOG_API_KEYsecretoptional
POSTHOG_HOSToptional
S2S_FIRECRAWL_INTEGRATIONS_TO_FIRECRAWL_API_KEYsecret
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_STANDARD
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_SCALE
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_STARTER
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_HOBBY
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_HOBBY_YEARLY
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_STANDARD_NEW
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_STANDARD_NEW_YEARLY
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_GROWTH
STRIPE_PRICE_ID_GROWTH_YEARLY
FIRE_ENGINE_BETA_URL
PRODUCT_EXTRACTION_SERVICE_URL
MENU_EXTRACTION_SERVICE_URL
PROXY_SERVER
PROXY_USERNAME

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