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Integrate Firecrawl `/search` into product code and agent workflows. Use when an app needs discovery before extraction, when the feature starts with a query instead of a URL, or when the system should search the web and optionally hydrate result content.

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name: firecrawl-build-search description: Integrate Firecrawl /search into product code and agent workflows. Use when an app needs discovery before extraction, when the feature starts with a query instead of a URL, or when the system should search the web and optionally hydrate result content. license: ISC metadata: author: firecrawl version: "0.1.0" homepage: https://www.firecrawl.dev source: https://github.com/firecrawl/skills inputs:

  • name: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY description: Firecrawl API key for hosted Firecrawl requests. required: true
  • name: FIRECRAWL_API_URL description: Optional base URL for self-hosted Firecrawl deployments. required: false

Firecrawl Build Search

Use this when the application starts with a query, not a URL.

Use This When

  • the user asks a question and the product must discover sources first
  • the feature needs current web results
  • you want to turn a search query into a shortlist of pages for later scraping

Default Recommendations

  • Use /search first when URL discovery is part of the product behavior.
  • Keep search and extraction conceptually separate unless scraping search results is clearly required.
  • Prefer selective follow-up extraction over broad hydration when cost or latency matters.

Common Product Patterns

  • answer generation with cited sources
  • company, competitor, or topic discovery
  • research workflows that produce a shortlist before deeper extraction
  • query-to-URL pipelines for later /scrape or /interact

Escalation Rules

Implementation Notes

  • Treat /search as discovery, ranking, and source selection.
  • Be explicit about whether the product needs snippets, URLs, or full result content.
  • Keep the query contract stable so downstream scraping logic stays predictable.

Docs (Source of Truth)

Read the source-of-truth page for your project language before writing integration code:

See Also