Hono

Use Firecrawl with Hono to build lightweight web scraping and search APIs that run anywhere.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+, Bun, or Deno
• A Firecrawl API key — get one free

Setup

npm install hono @mendable/firecrawl-js

Add your API key to .env:

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY

Search the web

import { Hono } from "hono";
import Firecrawl from "@mendable/firecrawl-js";

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

app.post("/search", async (c) => {
  const { query } = await c.req.json();
  const results = await firecrawl.search(query, { limit: 5 });
  return c.json(results);
});

export default app;

Scrape a page

app.post("/scrape", async (c) => {
  const { url } = await c.req.json();
  const result = await firecrawl.scrape(url);
  return c.json(result);
});

Interact with a page

Use interact to control a live browser session — click buttons, fill forms, and extract dynamic content.

app.post("/interact", async (c) => {
  const { url } = await c.req.json();

  const result = await firecrawl.scrape(url, { 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 c.json({ output: response.output });
});

Deploy anywhere

Hono runs on multiple runtimes. For Cloudflare Workers, pass the API key from the environment binding:

import { Hono } from "hono";
import Firecrawl from "@mendable/firecrawl-js";

type Bindings = { FIRECRAWL_API_KEY: string };
const app = new Hono<{ Bindings: Bindings }>();

app.post("/search", async (c) => {
  const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: c.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });
  const { query } = await c.req.json();
  const results = await firecrawl.search(query, { limit: 5 });
  return c.json(results);
});

export default app;

Next steps

Scrape docs

All scrape options including formats, actions, and proxies

Search docs

Search the web and get full page content

Interact docs

Click, fill forms, and extract dynamic content

Node SDK reference

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