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());

Example response

{
  "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples...",
  "metadata": {
    "title": "Example Domain",
    "sourceURL": "https://example.com"
  }
}

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)?;

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

Rust SDK reference

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