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Firecrawl mode

Firecrawl is a fallback for sites that block direct HTML fetching or don’t render meaningful content without JS.

--firecrawl off|auto|always

  • off: never use Firecrawl.
  • auto (default): use Firecrawl only when HTML extraction looks blocked/thin.
  • always: try Firecrawl first for non-YouTube URLs (falls back to HTML if Firecrawl is unavailable/empty).
    • YouTube URLs reject --firecrawl always; use --youtube auto|web|yt-dlp|apify instead.

Extract default

When --extract --format md is used for non-YouTube URLs and FIRECRAWL_API_KEY is configured, the CLI defaults to --firecrawl always to return Markdown.

API key

  • FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (required for Firecrawl requests)