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Rust

Get started with Firecrawl in Rust. Search, scrape, and interact with web data using the official SDK.

Prerequisites

  • Rust 1.70+ with Cargo
  • A Firecrawl API key — get one free

Install the crate

Add firecrawl to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
firecrawl = "2"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
serde_json = "1"

Search the web

use firecrawl::{Client, SearchOptions};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = Client::new("fc-YOUR-API-KEY")?;

    let results = client.search(
        "firecrawl web scraping",
        SearchOptions { limit: Some(5), ..Default::default() },
    ).await?;

    if let Some(web) = results.data.web {
        for item in web {
            if let firecrawl::SearchResultOrDocument::WebResult(r) = item {
                println!("{} - {}", r.url, r.title.unwrap_or_default());
            }
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

Scrape a page

let doc = client.scrape("https://example.com", None).await?;
println!("{}", doc.markdown.unwrap_or_default());

Interact with a page

Scrape a page to get a scrapeId, then use the interact API to control the browser session:

use firecrawl::{Client, ScrapeOptions, Format, ScrapeExecuteOptions};

let doc = client.scrape(
    "https://www.amazon.com",
    ScrapeOptions {
        formats: Some(vec![Format::Markdown]),
        ..Default::default()
    },
).await?;

let scrape_id = doc.metadata
    .as_ref()
    .and_then(|m| m.scrape_id.as_deref())
    .expect("scrapeId not found");

// Send a prompt to interact with the page
let run = client.interact(
    scrape_id,
    ScrapeExecuteOptions {
        prompt: Some("Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max".to_string()),
        ..Default::default()
    },
).await?;

let run = client.interact(
    scrape_id,
    ScrapeExecuteOptions {
        prompt: Some("Click on the first result and tell me the price".to_string()),
        ..Default::default()
    },
).await?;

println!("{:?}", run.output);

// Close the session
client.stop_interaction(scrape_id).await?;

Environment variable

Set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY instead of passing the key directly:

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY
let api_key = std::env::var("FIRECRAWL_API_KEY")?;
let client = Client::new(api_key)?;

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