Asi firecrawl-patterns

Firecrawl MCP for web scraping and search. Data-mined from 663 calls: scrape (383), search (254), map (9), crawl (5).

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/plurigrid/asi

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

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

manifest: skills/firecrawl-patterns/SKILL.md

Firecrawl MCP Skill

Data-Mined Usage (663 calls)

Tool Frequency

Tool	Calls	Use Case
`firecrawl_scrape`	383 (58%)	Extract content from specific URLs
`firecrawl_search`	254 (38%)	Web search with content extraction
`firecrawl_map`	9	Site map discovery
`firecrawl_crawl`	5	Multi-page crawling
`firecrawl_check_crawl_status`	6	Async crawl polling
`firecrawl_extract`	2	Structured extraction
`firecrawl_agent`	4	Agent-based scraping

Top Scraped Domains (by frequency)

Domain	Pattern
`arxiv.org`	Papers (PDF + abs pages)
`github.com`	Repos, READMEs, specific files
`skills.sh`	Skill registry
`clockssugars.blog`	Applied category theory
`soft-machine.io`	Project docs
`sign.kernel.community`	Kernel signing
`book.jank-lang.org`	Jank documentation
`ziglang.org`	Zig std library docs
`tweag.io`	Blog posts (CodeQL, etc)
`sciencedirect.com`	Academic papers

Common Workflows

1. Research Pipeline (co-occurs with exa + deepwiki)

exa web_search → find URLs
  → firecrawl scrape → extract full content
    → deepwiki ask_question → cross-reference with repo docs

2. Paper Reading

firecrawl_scrape(url: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/XXXX.XXXXX")

3. Documentation Extraction

firecrawl_scrape(url: "https://docs.example.com/api")

4. Site Discovery

firecrawl_map(url: "https://example.com")
  → firecrawl_scrape (targeted pages)

Co-occurrence Patterns

firecrawl + exa (3 sessions): Search then scrape
firecrawl + exa + deepwiki (3 sessions): Full research pipeline
firecrawl + exa + tree-sitter (2 sessions): Scrape + code analysis
firecrawl standalone (4 sessions): Direct URL scraping

When to Use Firecrawl vs Other Tools

Need	Use
Specific URL content	`firecrawl_scrape`
Web search + content	`firecrawl_search` or `exa web_search`
GitHub repo docs	`deepwiki ask_question` (faster, free)
Simple page fetch	`WebFetch` (built-in, no MCP needed)
Full site crawl	`firecrawl_crawl` (async, check status)

Server Config

[mcp_servers.firecrawl]
url = "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/fc-XXXXX/v2/mcp"