Bulk extract content from a website. Crawls pages following links up to a depth/limit.
When to use
- You need content from many pages on a site (e.g., all
/docs/) - You want to extract an entire site section
- Step 4 in the workflow escalation pattern: search → scrape → map → crawl → interact
Quick start
# Crawl a docs section
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --include-paths /docs --limit 50 --wait -o .firecrawl/crawl.json
# Full crawl with depth limit
firecrawl crawl "<url>" --max-depth 3 --wait --progress -o .firecrawl/crawl.json
firecrawl crawl
## Options
| Option | Description |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `--wait` | Wait for crawl to complete before returning |
| `--progress` | Show progress while waiting |
| `--limit <n>` | Max pages to crawl |
| `--max-depth <n>` | Max link depth to follow |
| `--include-paths <paths>` | Only crawl URLs matching these paths |
| `--exclude-paths <paths>` | Skip URLs matching these paths |
| `--delay <ms>` | Delay between requests |
| `--max-concurrency <n>` | Max parallel crawl workers |
| `--pretty` | Pretty print JSON output |
| `-o, --output <path>` | Output file path |
## Tips
- Always use `--wait` when you need the results immediately. Without it, crawl returns a job ID for async polling.
- Use `--include-paths` to scope the crawl — don't crawl an entire site when you only need one section.
- Crawl consumes credits per page. Check `firecrawl credit-usage` before large crawls.
## See also
- [firecrawl-scrape](../firecrawl-scrape/SKILL.md) — scrape individual pages
- [firecrawl-map](../firecrawl-map/SKILL.md) — discover URLs before deciding to crawl