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Firecrawl Skills — Setup Guide

Source: firecrawl — official publisher (4 skill repos) GitHub: firecrawl/cli · firecrawl/skills · firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows · firecrawl/anydoc Skills: 72 skills across 4 repos (~1.47M combined installs) Category: Web Scraping / Research / Growth Operations First Seen: August 14, 2026 afternoon sweep Quality Tier: 🟢 Production (official vendor skills, 5 skills above 57K installs)

Firecrawl — the web-scraping engine that already powers Hermes's web_search and web_extract backends — ships its own official skill ecosystem on skills.sh. Four repos turn raw Firecrawl API access into repeatable agent workflows: firecrawl/cli for programmatic scrape/search/crawl operations, firecrawl/skills for building scraping integrations, firecrawl-workflows for end-to-end research pipelines (deep research, market research, SEO audit, lead gen, competitive intel), and firecrawl/anydoc for converting documents to markdown.

Installation

# Core CLI operations (scrape, search, crawl, map, parse, monitor, browser, interact)
npx skills add firecrawl/cli

# Build skills (scraping integration development + onboarding)
npx skills add firecrawl/skills

# Research workflows (deep research, market research, SEO audit, lead gen, competitive intel)
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows

# Any-to-markdown document conversion
npx skills add firecrawl/anydoc

Set the API key in the environment:

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY="fc-..."

A free tier is available (trial credits); paid tiers add higher rate limits, concurrency, and advanced extraction (JSON schema output, interact, monitor).

Prerequisites

Requirement Details
Firecrawl API key FIRECRAWL_API_KEY env var — free tier available at firecrawl.dev
Hermes Agent Any recent version; the skills are plain markdown workflows + CLI commands
npx / Node.js For installing skills via npx skills add
Hermes web tools (optional) Hermes's own web_search / web_extract are Firecrawl-backed via the Nous subscription — these skills add direct API control on top

What It Provides

firecrawl/cli (14 skills, 716.0K installs)

Skill Installs Purpose
firecrawl 97.8K Core Firecrawl operations: scrape, search, crawl, map, extract
firecrawl-search 79.1K Web search with Firecrawl's search API
firecrawl-scrape 78.9K Single-URL scraping with markdown/JSON output
firecrawl-crawl 76.9K Multi-page crawls with depth and path filters
firecrawl-agent 76.8K Agent-oriented usage patterns for the Firecrawl API
firecrawl-map 76.5K Site URL discovery (sitemap-style mapping)
firecrawl-download 76.2K Download page content/assets
firecrawl-interact 61.6K Browser-interaction scraping (clicks, forms, JS rendering)
firecrawl-parse 47.7K Structured extraction via JSON schema
firecrawl-monitor 30.0K Recurring page monitoring for changes
firecrawl-browser 11.4K Full browser session control for hard-to-scrape pages
firecrawl-instruct 3.3K Natural-language extraction instructions

firecrawl-workflows (16 skills, 492.8K installs)

End-to-end pipelines, each 30K+ installs: firecrawl-deep-research (32.6K), firecrawl-research-papers (31.8K), firecrawl-website-design-clone (31.5K), firecrawl-market-research (31.1K), firecrawl-seo-audit (30.8K), firecrawl-knowledge-base (30.7K), firecrawl-dashboard-reporting (30.6K), firecrawl-workflows (30.5K), firecrawl-lead-gen (30.5K), firecrawl-lead-research (30.5K), firecrawl-shop (30.4K), firecrawl-qa (30.4K), firecrawl-competitive-intel (30.4K), firecrawl-knowledge-ingest (30.4K), firecrawl-company-directories (30.4K), firecrawl-demo-walkthrough (30.4K).

firecrawl/skills (41 skills, 252.5K installs)

Build-time skills for integrating Firecrawl into agent apps: firecrawl-build-scrape (58.1K), firecrawl-build-search (58.0K), firecrawl-build-interact (57.8K), firecrawl-build-onboarding (57.7K), firecrawl-research-index (18.1K), plus deploy/QA/tooling skills (vercel/netlify/render/cloudflare deploys, Notion integration, GitHub CI fixes, playwright, pdf, spreadsheet, screenshot).

firecrawl/anydoc (1 skill, ~4K installs)

convert-documents-to-markdown — convert any document (PDF, docx, xlsx, images) to clean markdown for agent ingestion.

Quick Start

  1. export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY="fc-..." and npx skills add firecrawl/cli
  2. "Scrape https://example.com/pricing and return the markdown"
  3. "Search the web for 'AI agent platforms' and summarize the top 10 results"
  4. "Run a deep research pass on multi-agent orchestration tooling, cite every claim"
  5. "Map every URL on our competitor's site and flag pages mentioning pricing"

CorpusIQ Use Cases

Use Case How
Competitive intel firecrawl-competitive-intel + firecrawl-seo-audit against competitor domains before feature/positioning decisions
Market research firecrawl-market-research for operator pain-point mining — feeds the help-first content engine
Lead research firecrawl-lead-research + firecrawl-company-directories to enrich cold-outreach targets with real site data
Docs SEO firecrawl-seo-audit as a second opinion alongside the Search Console/Ahrefs/Semrush connector stack
Knowledge ingest firecrawl-anydoc to convert partner PDFs/research into markdown for the GBrain vault

Limitations / Verification

  • API-key based: usage is metered against your Firecrawl plan; monitor credit consumption on long crawls
  • interact and browser consume more credits than plain scrape/search
  • monitor requires a paid plan for recurring schedules
  • Skills are agent-agnostic markdown — they work in Hermes sessions the same way as Claude Code
# Verify key works (free tier)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/scrape \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","formats":["markdown"]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" | head -c 300

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