# Introducing Firecrawl v2

Firecrawl v2 ships faster scraping by default, a summary format, news and image search, and smart crawling with natural-language prompts.

- Published: August 19, 2025

![Firecrawl v2](/images/v2-changelog.png)

### 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](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/releases/tag/v2.0.0)

_Canonical HTML: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/v2_

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