> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://firecrawl-docs-link-openclaw-quickstart.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# OpenClaw

> Use Firecrawl with OpenClaw to give your agents web scraping, search, and browser automation capabilities.

Integrate Firecrawl with [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai) to give your agents the ability to scrape, search, crawl, extract, and interact with the web — all through the [Firecrawl CLI](/sdks/cli).

## Why Firecrawl + OpenClaw

* **No local browser needed** — every session runs in a remote, isolated sandbox. No Chromium installs, no driver conflicts, no RAM pressure on your machine.
* **Real parallelism** — run many browser sessions at once without local resource fights. Agents can browse in batches across multiple sites simultaneously.
* **Secure by default** — navigation, DOM evaluation, and extraction all happen inside disposable sandboxes, not on your workstation.
* **Better token economics** — agents get back clean artifacts (snapshots, extracted fields) instead of hauling giant DOMs and driver logs into the context window.
* **Full web toolkit** — scrape, search, and browser automation all through a single CLI that your agent already knows how to use.

## Setup

Tell your agent to install the Firecrawl CLI, authenticate and initialize the skill with this command:

```bash theme={null}
npx -y firecrawl-cli init --browser --all
```

* `--all` skips agent selection and initializes every detected agent
* `--browser` opens the browser for Firecrawl authentication automatically

or install everything seperately:

```bash theme={null}
npm install -g firecrawl-cli
firecrawl init skills
firecrawl login --browser
# Or, skip the browser and provide your API key directly:
export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY="fc-YOUR-API-KEY"
```

Verify everything is set up correctly:

```bash theme={null}
firecrawl --status
```

<Tip>
  Once the skill is installed, your OpenClaw agent automatically discovers and uses Firecrawl commands — no extra configuration needed.
</Tip>

## Scrape

Scrape a single page and extract its content:

```bash theme={null}
firecrawl https://example.com --only-main-content
```

Get specific formats:

```bash theme={null}
firecrawl https://example.com --format markdown,links --pretty
```

## Search

Search the web and optionally scrape the results:

```bash theme={null}
firecrawl search "latest AI funding rounds 2025" --limit 10

# Search and scrape the results
firecrawl search "OpenClaw documentation" --scrape --scrape-formats markdown
```

## Browser

Launch a remote browser session for interactive automation. Each session runs in an isolated sandbox — no local Chromium install required. `agent-browser` is pre-installed with 40+ commands.

```bash theme={null}
# Shorthand: auto-launches a session if none is active
firecrawl browser "open https://news.ycombinator.com"
firecrawl browser "snapshot"
firecrawl browser "scrape"
firecrawl browser close
```

Interact with page elements using refs from the snapshot:

```bash theme={null}
firecrawl browser "open https://example.com"
firecrawl browser "snapshot"
# snapshot returns @ref IDs — use them to interact
firecrawl browser "click @e5"
firecrawl browser "fill @e3 'search query'"
firecrawl browser "scrape"
firecrawl browser close
```

<Note>
  The shorthand form (`firecrawl browser "..."`) sends commands to `agent-browser` automatically and auto-launches a sandbox session if there isn't one active. Your agent issues intent-level actions (`open`, `click`, `fill`, `snapshot`, `scrape`) instead of writing Playwright code.
</Note>

## Example: tell your agent

Here are some prompts you can give your OpenClaw agent:

* *"Use Firecrawl to scrape [https://example.com](https://example.com) and summarize the main content."*
* *"Search for the latest OpenAI news and give me a summary of the top 5 results."*
* *"Use Firecrawl Browser to open Hacker News, get the top 5 stories, and the first 10 comments on each."*
* *"Crawl the docs at [https://docs.firecrawl.dev](https://docs.firecrawl.dev) and save them to a file."*

## Further reading

* [Firecrawl CLI reference](/sdks/cli)
* [Browser Sandbox docs](/features/browser)
* [Agent docs](/features/agent)