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firecrawl-download

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About firecrawl-download

firecrawl download is an experimental command in the Firecrawl CLI, under the firecrawl x group, that saves website pages as local files. It maps the site origin to discover pages, then scrapes each one into nested directories under .firecrawl/. Authentication is required.

Key features

  1. 01Discovers pages by mapping the site origin first
  2. 02Saves each page as local files
  3. 03Supports multiple output formats and screenshots
  4. 04Scopes non-root URLs with --include-paths
  5. 05Skips the interactive wizard with -y

Use cases

  1. 01Saving a documentation site as Markdown files offline
  2. 02Batch-saving one section of a site with screenshots
  3. 03Running bulk page downloads in automated scripts

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl-download

After installing, type/firecrawl-downloadin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

firecrawl download (invoked as firecrawl x download)

Experimental. download is available under the firecrawl x command group.

Prerequisite: download requires authentication (no keyless free tier); without credentials the CLI prompts an interactive login.

Maps the site origin first to discover pages, then scrapes each one into nested directories under .firecrawl/. Use --include-paths to scope a non-root URL to one section. Automated runs always pass -y — without it the command opens an interactive wizard that blocks on a prompt.

Quick start

# With screenshots
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --screenshot --limit 20 -y

# Multiple formats (each saved as its own file per page)
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --format markdown,links --screenshot --limit 20 -y
# Creates per page: index.md + links.txt + screenshot.png

# Filter to specific sections
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --include-paths "/features,/sdks" -y

# Skip translations
firecrawl x download https://docs.example.com --exclude-paths "/zh,/ja,/fr,/es,/pt-BR" -y

Run firecrawl x download --help for the full option list, including which scrape options download supports.

Done when: the command exits successfully and the expected files exist under .firecrawl/.

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