A small Microsoft utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files into Markdown that is easy to hand to a language model.
RAG & vector DBsfirecrawl
firecrawl
A service that turns any website into clean Markdown or structured data for models. It can search, scrape, crawl a whole site and even click through a page.
Who it is for
For people who feed agents and RAG pipelines with fresh web data.
How to start
- Get an API key at firecrawl.dev.
- Install the Python SDK:
pip install firecrawl-py. - Call
app.scrape("https://firecrawl.dev", formats=["markdown"])and inspect the result.
Steps are taken from the README. Check the current version in the repository before running them.
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