Latest Firecrawl News & Updates
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Web crawling and scraping API for AI
firecrawl.dev- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 40–50
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Latest news about Firecrawl
In short: Firecrawl secured $14.5M in Series A funding and launched several advanced AI-driven web scraping and browser interaction tools.
Company announcements
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Firecrawl introduces Question format for /scrape
Users ask web pages questions for high-quality, grounded answers using up to 100x fewer tokens. Ideal for AI agents.
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Firecrawl launches PHP SDK
It enables scraping pages to markdown, live web searches, and dynamic site navigation in PHP or Laravel.
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Firecrawl ships Lockdown Mode
New cache-only /scrape flag serves results from existing index without outbound requests, ensuring security for sensitive workloads. Available across API, SDKs, and CLI.
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Firecrawl launches /parse endpoint
It converts PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets into clean, LLM-ready markdown or JSON up to 5x faster using a Rust-based engine. Supports files up to 50 MB.
Media coverage
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Firecrawl is becoming AI's default web layer.
Firecrawl is becoming core infrastructure for AI agents, giving systems reliable access to the live web and turning open-source traction into category leadership.
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Claude Code + Firecrawl: Agents That Browse The Web Like You Do | by Alex P. | Mar, 2026 | Medium
AI AGENTS Claude Code + Firecrawl: Agents That Browse The Web Like You Do Your AI agent can now read any webpage, fill forms, and...
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Firecrawl Lifetime Deal: Buy Once, Access Forever
Automated Web Scraping at Scale: Scraping modern websites is messy—JavaScript, bot protection, and inconsistent layouts make it worse. Firecrawl handles all of this for you...
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Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture...
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