Cli firecrawl-download

Name: firecrawl-download
Author: firecrawl

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/firecrawl/cli

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/firecrawl/cli "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/firecrawl-download" ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-cli-firecrawl-download && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/firecrawl-download/SKILL.md

source content

firecrawl download

Experimental. Convenience command that combines
map
+
scrape
to save an entire site as local files.

Maps the site first to discover pages, then scrapes each one into nested directories under

.firecrawl/

. All scrape options work with download. Always pass

-y

to skip the confirmation prompt.

When to use

You want to save an entire site (or section) to local files
You need offline access to documentation or content
Bulk content extraction with organized file structure

Quick start

# Interactive wizard (picks format, screenshots, paths for you)
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com

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

# Multiple formats (each saved as its own file per page)
firecrawl 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 download https://docs.example.com --include-paths "/features,/sdks"

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

# Full combo
firecrawl download https://docs.example.com \
  --include-paths "/features,/sdks" \
  --exclude-paths "/zh,/ja" \
  --only-main-content \
  --screenshot \
  -y

Download options

Option	Description
`--limit <n>`	Max pages to download
`--search <query>`	Filter URLs by search query
`--include-paths <paths>`	Only download matching paths
`--exclude-paths <paths>`	Skip matching paths
`--allow-subdomains`	Include subdomain pages
`-y`	Skip confirmation prompt (always use in automated flows)

Scrape options (all work with download)

-f <formats>

-H

-S

--screenshot

--full-page-screenshot

--only-main-content

--include-tags

--exclude-tags

--wait-for

--max-age

--country

--languages