Analyzing Firecrawl: How Do You Build an API That Turns the Web Into LLM-Ready Markdown?
Firecrawl is a data API that turns any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON. It orchestrates in TypeScript, cleans in Rust, converts to Markdown in Go, races several scrape engines in a waterfall, and drives crawls with a hand-built Postgres queue. We analyze the scrape/crawl/map/search/extract pipelines and contrast them with Browser Use as "two ways to feed the web to LLMs."