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What is deep research in web scraping?
TL;DR
Deep research crawls many pages, extracts relevant data, and synthesizes findings with citations. It automates hours of manual research.
What is deep research?
Beyond single-page scraping: crawl multiple sources, extract facts, synthesize into structured reports, and maintain citation links for every data point.
How it works
- Parse the research question
- Crawl relevant pages across domains
- Extract specific facts and quotes
- Synthesize into coherent analysis
- Link claims to source URLs
Use cases
- Market research across competitor sites
- Due diligence on companies or technologies
- Literature review from multiple sources
- Trend analysis across news and blogs
You can use Firecrawl’s deep research mode to aggregate data from hundreds of sources automatically.
Furthermore, Firecrawl /agent is a magic API that searches, navigates, and gathers data from the widest range of websites, finding data in hard-to-reach places and uncovering data in ways no other API can.
Key Takeaways
Deep research automates multi-source information gathering, producing cited reports from hundreds of web pages.
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