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 (falls back to HTML if Firecrawl is unavailable/empty).

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)