Firecrawl (JavaScript)
SDK for web scraping, crawling, search and research paper indexing.
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How Firecrawl (JavaScript) is used
Firecrawl (JavaScript) is a dependency in 6 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 234 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Puppeteer (84 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Radix UI (50.9%), Zod (69.7%), Class Variance Authority (55.1%).
Firecrawl (JavaScript) popularity over time
Gid Score 70: downloads 60, use in agent projects 63, GitHub stars 99, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Firecrawl (JavaScript)
| Radix UI | 50.9% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 3.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Zod | 69.7% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 55.1% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 3.4× more than average |
| AI SDK | 46.6% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 10.6× more than average |
| Next.js | 57.7% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Lucide React | 59.8% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 3.0× more than average |
| Sonner | 43.6% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 4.7× more than average |
| clsx | 57.7% of Firecrawl (JavaScript) projects · 3.0× more than average |
From all 234 projects in our scan that use Firecrawl (JavaScript), including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | npm install @mendable/firecrawl-js |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (133), TypeScript / JavaScript (97), Python (3), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | firecrawl/open-lovable, vercel-labs/workflow-builder-template, fdarkaou/open-deep-research, joschan21/contentport, developersdigest/llm-api-engine |
Alternatives to Firecrawl (JavaScript)
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Firecrawl (JavaScript) are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
74 | 84 (1.7%) | 6.7M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
73 | 74 (1.5%) | 15.5M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Puppeteer Core npm Headless Chrome/Chromium control library for automation and testing. |
74 | 26 (0.5%) | 13.8M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| Stagehand (JavaScript) npm Browser agent SDK for building web automation agents. |
61 | 5 (0.1%) | 885K | 25.7K | MIT |
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