Introducing Firecrawl v2

Firecrawl v2

Key Improvements

  • Faster by default: Requests are cached with maxAge defaulting to 2 days, and sensible defaults like blockAds, skipTlsVerification, and removeBase64Images are enabled.

  • New summary format: You can now specify "summary" as a format to directly receive a concise summary of the page content.

  • Updated JSON extraction: JSON extraction and change tracking now use an object format. The old "extract" format has been renamed to "json".

  • Enhanced screenshot options: Use the object form.

  • New search sources: Search across "news" and "images" in addition to web results by setting the sources parameter.

  • Smart crawling with prompts: Pass a natural-language prompt to crawl and the system derives paths/limits automatically. Use the new crawl-params-preview endpoint to inspect the derived options before starting a job.

Read the full changelog here