Firecrawl

Firecrawl

OpenClaw can use Firecrawl as a fallback extractor for web_fetch. It is a hosted content extraction service that supports bot circumvention and caching, which helps with JS-heavy sites or pages that block plain HTTP fetches.

Get an API key

1. Create a Firecrawl account and generate an API key.
2. Store it in config or set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in the gateway environment.

Configure Firecrawl

{
  tools: {
    web: {
      fetch: {
        firecrawl: {
          apiKey: "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY_HERE",
          baseUrl: "https://api.firecrawl.dev",
          onlyMainContent: true,
          maxAgeMs: 172800000,
          timeoutSeconds: 60,
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

Notes:

• firecrawl.enabled defaults to true when an API key is present.
• maxAgeMs controls how old cached results can be (ms). Default is 2 days.

Stealth / bot circumvention

Firecrawl exposes a proxy mode parameter for bot circumvention (basic, stealth, or auto). OpenClaw always uses proxy: "auto" plus storeInCache: true for Firecrawl requests. If proxy is omitted, Firecrawl defaults to auto. auto retries with stealth proxies if a basic attempt fails, which may use more credits than basic-only scraping.

How web_fetch uses Firecrawl

web_fetch extraction order:

1. Readability (local)
2. Firecrawl (if configured)
3. Basic HTML cleanup (last fallback)

See Web tools for the full web tool setup.