Great article on Firecrawll · AI Developer Accelerator

Great article on Firecrawll

brought up this tool months back but I haven't had time to play with it yet.

I found this article this morning in my Medium inbox. its free. https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/firecrawl-how-to-scrape-entire-websites-with-a-single-command-in-python-5a8940183c91

It covers the following:

Recursively traverse website sub-pages
Handle dynamic JavaScript-based content
Bypass common web scraping blockers
Extract clean, structured data for AI/ML applications

I says it had a notebook but following the link to Github, it says the page no longer exists. I have asked the Author where we can find the notebook as it could be helpful.

The Github repo for Firecrawl is at https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl/tree/main

TOP HINTEnsure you limit your crawl. I didn't and burned through my free 500 credits on the free tier in one sitting. You can limit how deep you go by setting a limit. Read up on it before using, but basically, you need is

`params = {"limit": 3}` # 3 being the depth

Also ensure you use other limiters like external crawls etc. Again read the docs

Enjoy

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