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FireCrawl Markdown Web Scraper Agent

Version: 1.0.0 | Last Updated: 2025-05-16

Integrates with:

FireCrawl Web (HTTP/S)

Overview

Unlock Effortless Web Content Extraction with this AI Agent

This n8n AI Agent simplifies the process of retrieving web page content. It takes a URL as input, uses the FireCrawl service to scrape the page, and returns the main content neatly formatted as Markdown. This is a powerful tool for anyone needing to programmatically access and utilize information from websites, especially for feeding content into Large Language Models (LLMs) or other content processing systems.

This Agent has the specific ability of Web Content Extraction.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Automated Web Scraping: Fetches content from any provided URL via the FireCrawl API.
  • Markdown Conversion: Delivers clean, structured Markdown output, perfect for AI processing or content management systems.
  • Simple Integration: Easily callable by other AI Agents or n8n workflows, expecting just a URL.
  • Reliable Extraction: Leverages FireCrawl for robust scraping, focusing on main content and removing clutter.
  • Streamlined Data Input: Prepares web content for AI analysis, summarization, or knowledge base creation.

Use Cases

  • **B2C E-commerce**: Scrape competitor product pages for pricing information, descriptions, and review sentiment analysis (after further processing).
  • **B2B SaaS**: Gather industry news, blog posts, or documentation for market research, competitive analysis, or to feed into content creation pipelines.
  • **Content Aggregation**: Automatically pull articles from various web sources to populate a knowledge base or feed into an AI-powered summarization tool.
  • **RAG Data Preparation**: Extract text from web pages to build or update a knowledge base for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, enhancing AI responses with up-to-date information.
  • **Monitoring**: Track changes on specific websites by regularly scraping and comparing content.

Prerequisites

  • An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
  • A FireCrawl API Key.
  • The URL of the web page to scrape.

Setup Instructions

  1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
  2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
  3. Create FireCrawl API credentials in n8n: a. Go to 'Credentials' in your n8n instance. b. Click 'Add credential'. c. Search for and select 'Header Auth'. d. Name the credential (e.g., 'Firecrawl' as used in the template). e. For 'Header Name', enter Authorization. f. For 'Header Value', enter Bearer YOUR_FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (replace YOUR_FIRECRAWL_API_KEY with your actual key). g. Save the credential.
  4. Ensure the 'FireCrawl' HTTP Request node in the workflow is configured to use the credential you just created (it should be pre-configured if named 'Firecrawl').
  5. To trigger the workflow (e.g., from another n8n workflow using an 'Execute Workflow' node, or by calling its webhook if you adapt the trigger), send a JSON payload with a url key. Example input: {"query": {"url": "https://example.com"}} or simply {"url": "https://example.com"} if calling via webhook directly to this sub-workflow's trigger.
  6. Activate the workflow. The scraped Markdown content will be available in the response field of the output from the 'Edit Fields' node.

Tags:

AI AgentWeb ScrapingContent ExtractionMarkdownFireCrawlAutomationData CollectionAPI

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