Vercel Functions

Use Firecrawl with Vercel Functions to search, scrape, and interact with web data in serverless deployments.

Prerequisites

Vercel project (Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, or standalone)
A Firecrawl API key — get one free

Setup

npm install firecrawl

Add FIRECRAWL_API_KEY as an environment variable in your Vercel project settings, or in .env.local for local development:

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY

Search the web

Create api/search.ts (or app/api/search/route.ts for Next.js):

import { Firecrawl } from "firecrawl";

const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });

export async function POST(request: Request) {
  const { query } = await request.json();
  const results = await firecrawl.search(query, { limit: 5 });

  return new Response(JSON.stringify(results), {
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  });
}

Scrape a page

Create api/scrape.ts (or app/api/scrape/route.ts for Next.js):

import { Firecrawl } from "firecrawl";

const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });

export async function POST(request: Request) {
  const { url } = await request.json();
  const result = await firecrawl.scrape(url);

  return new Response(JSON.stringify(result), {
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  });
}

Interact with a page

Create api/interact.ts (or app/api/interact/route.ts for Next.js):

import { Firecrawl } from "firecrawl";

const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });

export async function POST(request: Request) {
  const result = await firecrawl.scrape("https://www.amazon.com", {
    formats: ["markdown"],
  });
  const scrapeId = result.metadata?.scrapeId;

  await firecrawl.interact(scrapeId, {
    prompt: "Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max",
  });
  const response = await firecrawl.interact(scrapeId, {
    prompt: "Click on the first result and tell me the price",
  });

  await firecrawl.stopInteraction(scrapeId);

  return new Response(JSON.stringify({ output: response.output }), {
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  });
}

Deploy

vercel deploy

Test it

curl -X POST https://your-project.vercel.app/api/search \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "firecrawl web scraping"}'

Vercel Functions have a default timeout of 10 seconds on the Hobby plan and 60 seconds on Pro. For large crawl jobs, use the Firecrawl async API with webhooks instead.

Next steps

Search docs

Search the web and get full page content

Scrape docs

All scrape options including formats, actions, and proxies

Interact docs

Click, fill forms, and extract dynamic content

Node SDK reference

Full SDK reference with crawl, map, batch scrape, and more

Search docs

Scrape docs

Interact docs

Node SDK reference

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