Firecrawl Claude Code Skill — Data skill for Claude Code

Firecrawl Web Skill for Claude Code

A Claude Code skill that adds web scraping capabilities using [Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.dev). This skill gives Claude Code reliable web access for fetching page content, taking screenshots, extracting structured data, searching the web, and crawling documentation sites.

Features

• Markdown extraction - Fetch any webpage as clean, LLM-ready markdown
• Screenshots - Capture full-page screenshots of any URL
• Structured data extraction - Extract specific fields using JSON schemas
• Web search - Search the web and get full content from results
• Documentation crawling - Crawl entire doc sites to learn new frameworks

Installation

1. Clone this repo into your Claude Code skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/bexgboost/firecrawl-claude-code-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-web

1. Install dependencies:

pip install firecrawl python-dotenv

1. Get your Firecrawl API key from firecrawl.dev and add it to your environment:

echo 'FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-your-key-here' >> ~/.env

1. Restart Claude Code to load the skill.

Usage

The skill triggers automatically when you ask Claude Code to:

• "Get the markdown from this URL"
• "Take a screenshot of this page"
• "Extract the price and title from this product page"
• "Search the web for Python 3.13 features"
• "Crawl the Optuna documentation"

You can also use the script directly:

# Fetch markdown
python3 ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-web/fc.py markdown "https://example.com"

# Take screenshot
python3 ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-web/fc.py screenshot "https://example.com" -o page.png

# Search the web
python3 ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-web/fc.py search "your query" --limit 5

# Crawl docs
python3 ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-web/fc.py crawl "https://docs.example.com" --limit 30

Firecrawl Credits

• Free tier: 500 credits
• Scrape/screenshot/extract: 1 credit per URL
• Search: