Firecrawl - Search the web action
The Search the web action searches the live web for pages, news, or images in Firecrawl.
Input
The following input fields are the most commonly used. Refer to the Firecrawl Search API documentation for the complete list of input fields.
| Input field | Description |
|---|---|
| Query | Enter the search query. The maximum is 500 characters. This field supports operators such as site:, intitle:, filetype:, quotes, and -. |
| Limit | Optional. Enter the results per source type. Valid values are 1-100. The default is 10. |
| Sources | Optional. Select the result types to return. Options are Web, News, or Images. The default is Web. |
| Categories | Optional. Select categories to filter web results. Options are Research, PDF, or Developer. No category filter by default. |
| Include domains | Optional. Enter hostnames to restrict results to. This field can't be used with Exclude domains. |
| Exclude domains | Optional. Enter hostnames to exclude from results. This field can't be used with Include domains. |
| Time filter (tbs) | Optional. Enter a time filter, for example qdr:d for the past day or qdr:w for the past week. |
| Country | Optional. Enter an ISO country code for geo-targeting, for example US. |
| Highlights | Optional. Select Yes or No to generate query-relevant highlights. The default is Yes. |
| Scrape options | Optional. Set formats and scrape options to include each result's full page content. Scrape options uses the same options as the Scrape a page action. |
Output
| Output field | Description |
|---|---|
| Success | A true or false boolean response that indicates if the request was successful. |
| ID | The search's unique identifier. |
| Credits used | The number of credits the search used. |
| Warning | A warning message about the search, if any. |
| Error | The error message, if the search failed. |
| Scrape IDs | The scrape job IDs for the web, news, and image results. |
| Data | The search results, grouped into web, news, and image lists. |
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