What is deep research in web scraping?

Deep research crawls many pages, extracts relevant data, and synthesizes findings with citations. It automates hours of manual research.

Beyond single-page scraping: crawl multiple sources, extract facts, synthesize into structured reports, and maintain citation links for every data point.

1. Parse the research question
2. Crawl relevant pages across domains
3. Extract specific facts and quotes
4. Synthesize into coherent analysis
5. Link claims to source URLs

• 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.

Deep research automates multi-source information gathering, producing cited reports from hundreds of web pages.