FireScraper Python SDK

Official Python SDK for FireScraper — web scraping built for AI pipelines.

Turn websites into clean, structured text for RAG, fine-tuning, and AI agent workflows.

Installation

pip install firescraper

With LangChain integration:

pip install firescraper langchain-firescraper

Quick Start

from firescraper import FireScraper

client = FireScraper("fsk_your_api_key")

# Start a crawl
session = client.scrape(
    name="Docs crawl",
    urls=["https://docs.example.com/"],
    max_depth=2,
    scraper="article",
)

# Wait for completion
result = client.wait_for_completion(session.id)
print(f"Scraped {result.counts.success} pages")

# Download results
download = client.get_results(session.id, format="json")
with open("results.json", "wb") as f:
    f.write(download.data)

Async Usage

from firescraper import AsyncFireScraper

async with AsyncFireScraper("fsk_your_api_key") as client:
    session = await client.scrape(
        name="Async crawl",
        urls=["https://example.com/"],
        max_depth=1,
    )
    result = await client.wait_for_completion(session.id)
    download = await client.get_results(session.id, format="markdown")

LangChain Integration

from langchain_firescraper import FireScraperLoader

loader = FireScraperLoader(
    api_key="fsk_your_api_key",
    urls=["https://docs.example.com/"],
    max_depth=2,
)

# Load all documents
docs = loader.load()
for doc in docs:
    print(doc.metadata["url"], len(doc.page_content))

# Or stream with lazy_load
for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    process(doc)

API Reference

FireScraper(api_key, *, base_url, timeout)

Methods

scrape(name, urls, max_depth=1, scraper="article", **kwargs)

Start a new crawl session.

Returns a ScrapeResponse with .id, .status, .message.

get_session(session_id)

Get current session status, including page counts and processing state.

wait_for_completion(session_id, poll_interval=5, timeout=300, on_progress=None)

Poll until the session reaches a terminal status (done, error, etc.).

def progress(status):
    print(f"{status.counts.success}/{status.counts.total} pages")

result = client.wait_for_completion(session.id, on_progress=progress)

list_results(session_id)

List available result files for a completed session.

get_results(session_id, format="json")

Download results. Supported formats: zip, csv, json, markdown, structured, manifest, documents, chunks, extracted. Use documents for page-level JSONL output.

get_partial_results(session_id, format="csv")

Download mid-crawl results while the session is still running.

Error Handling

from firescraper import FireScraperError, AuthenticationError, RateLimitError

try:
    session = client.scrape(name="Test", urls=["https://example.com"])
except AuthenticationError:
    print("Invalid API key")
except RateLimitError:
    print("Rate limited — try again later")
except FireScraperError as e:
    print(f"API error: {e.message} (code={e.code}, status={e.status})")

Advanced: Progress Tracking

session = client.scrape(name="Large crawl", urls=urls, max_depth=5)

result = client.wait_for_completion(
    session.id,
    poll_interval=3,
    timeout=600,
    on_progress=lambda s: print(
        f"[{s.session.status}] {s.counts.success} pages, "
        f"queue: {s.processing.queue_length}"
    ),
)

License

MIT