Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a San Francisco-based developer platform that offers a web context API designed to search, scrape, parse, and interact with the live web at scale. The platform converts websites into clean, LLM-ready data formats such as Markdown, JSON, HTML, and screenshots, making it suitable for AI agents, applications, and research workflows. Founded in 2022 by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Camara, Firecrawl aims to provide infrastructure that transforms unstructured web content into structured, searchable data. The company has developed a proprietary AI-driven scraping engine called Fire-Engine, which efficiently handles dynamic JavaScript and bypasses anti-bot measures. Firecrawl's services are utilized by over 80,000 teams, including notable companies like Apple, Shopify, and Coinbase, and are particularly valuable for developers, LLM engineers, and data scientists.