SDKs Overview

Updated Feb 2026

Firecrawl provides official and community SDKs so you can integrate web scraping, crawling, and data extraction into your application using the language you already work in. This page summarizes every available SDK, its installation command, version support, and feature coverage.

Official SDKs

Official SDKs are maintained by the Firecrawl team and support both v1 and v2 of the API.

SDK	Package	Install	API Versions	Docs
Python	firecrawl-py	pip install firecrawl-py	v1, v2	Python SDK
Node.js	@mendable/firecrawl-js	npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js	v1, v2	Node.js SDK
CLI	firecrawl-cli	npm install -g firecrawl-cli	v1, v2	CLI Reference

Community SDKs

Community SDKs are built and maintained by the open-source community. They currently target v1 of the API.

SDK	Package	Install	API Versions	Docs
Go	github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-go	go get github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-go	v1	Go SDK
Rust	firecrawl	Add firecrawl = "^1.0" to Cargo.toml	v1	Rust SDK

Feature Matrix

The table below shows which features each SDK supports. Official SDKs receive new features first; community SDKs may lag behind.

Feature	Python	Node.js	CLI	Go	Rust
Scrape	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Crawl	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Map	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Search	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Batch Scrape	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Extract	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Agent	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Browser Sessions	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Async / Non-blocking	✅	✅	N/A	❌	✅
WebSocket Watcher	✅	✅	N/A	❌	❌
Auto-Pagination	✅	✅	N/A	❌	❌

Quick Start

Every SDK follows the same pattern: create a client with your API key, then call the method you need.

Python

from firecrawl import Firecrawl

firecrawl = Firecrawl(api_key="fc-YOUR-API-KEY")
result = firecrawl.scrape("https://example.com", formats=["markdown"])
print(result["markdown"])

Node.js

import Firecrawl from '@mendable/firecrawl-js';

const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: "fc-YOUR-API-KEY" });
const result = await firecrawl.scrape("https://example.com", {
  formats: ["markdown"]
});
console.log(result.markdown);

CLI

firecrawl login --api-key fc-YOUR-API-KEY
firecrawl scrape https://example.com

Go

import "github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-go"

app, _ := firecrawl.NewFirecrawlApp("fc-YOUR-API-KEY", "")
data, _ := app.ScrapeUrl("https://example.com", nil)

Rust

use firecrawl::FirecrawlApp;

let app = FirecrawlApp::new("fc-YOUR-API-KEY").unwrap();
let result = app.scrape_url("https://example.com", None).await.unwrap();
println!("{}", result.markdown.unwrap());

Authentication

All SDKs authenticate with an API key. You can obtain one from the Firecrawl dashboard. The key can be passed directly to the client constructor or set as an environment variable:

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY

When the environment variable is set, most SDKs will pick it up automatically without requiring the api_key parameter.

Choosing an SDK

• Python -- Best for data science, AI/ML pipelines, and backend automation. Full async support via AsyncFirecrawl. See Python SDK.
• Node.js / TypeScript -- Best for web applications, serverless functions, and JavaScript toolchains. See Node.js SDK.
• CLI -- Best for shell scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and quick one-off operations. Supports browser-based auth for AI agents. See CLI Reference.
• Go -- Best for high-performance backend services. Community-maintained, v1 only. See Go SDK.
• Rust -- Best for systems programming and performance-critical applications. Community-maintained, v1 only. See Rust SDK.

Related Pages

• Scrape -- Single-page content extraction
• Crawl -- Multi-page website crawling
• Map -- URL discovery and site mapping
• Search -- Web search with optional scraping
• Extract -- Structured data extraction
• Agent -- Autonomous web data gathering