Firecrawl is an API service that extracts clean, usable data from the live web for AI agents—handling everything from searching and scraping to parsing PDFs and navigating dynamic sites. It consolidates what teams typically do with multiple tools (Puppeteer, Playwright, SerpAPI) into a single interface with compliance built in and sub-3-second response times. The platform offers hosted APIs, open-source SDKs, CLI tools, and integrations with Claude, Cursor, and other AI coding environments.