Laravel

Use Firecrawl with Laravel to search, scrape, and interact with web data using the REST API.

Prerequisites

• Laravel 10+ project
• A Firecrawl API key — get one free

Configuration

Add your API key to .env:

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY

Add the config entry to config/services.php:

'firecrawl' => [
    'api_key' => env('FIRECRAWL_API_KEY'),
    'base_url' => env('FIRECRAWL_API_URL', 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2'),
],

Create a service class

Create app/Services/FirecrawlService.php:

<?php

namespace App\Services;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

class FirecrawlService
{
    private string $apiKey;
    private string $baseUrl;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->apiKey = config('services.firecrawl.api_key');
        $this->baseUrl = config('services.firecrawl.base_url');
    }

    public function search(string $query, int $limit = 5): array
    {
        $response = Http::withToken($this->apiKey)
            ->post("{$this->baseUrl}/search", [
                'query' => $query,
                'limit' => $limit,
            ]);

        return $response->json();
    }

    public function scrape(string $url, array $options = []): array
    {
        $response = Http::withToken($this->apiKey)
            ->post("{$this->baseUrl}/scrape", array_merge(['url' => $url], $options));

        return $response->json();
    }

    public function interact(string $url, string $prompt, ?string $followUp = null): array
    {
        // 1. Scrape to open a browser session
        $scrapeResult = $this->scrape($url, ['formats' => ['markdown']]);
        $scrapeId = $scrapeResult['data']['metadata']['scrapeId'];

        // 2. Send first prompt
        Http::withToken($this->apiKey)
            ->post("{$this->baseUrl}/scrape/{$scrapeId}/interact", [
                'prompt' => $prompt,
            ]);

        // 3. Send follow-up prompt
        $result = null;
        if ($followUp) {
            $result = Http::withToken($this->apiKey)
                ->post("{$this->baseUrl}/scrape/{$scrapeId}/interact", [
                    'prompt' => $followUp,
                ])->json();
        }

        // 4. Close the session
        Http::withToken($this->apiKey)
            ->delete("{$this->baseUrl}/scrape/{$scrapeId}/interact");

        return $result ?? $scrapeResult;
    }
}

Create a controller

Create app/Http/Controllers/FirecrawlController.php:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Services\FirecrawlService;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class FirecrawlController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct(private FirecrawlService $firecrawl) {}

    public function search(Request $request)
    {
        $validated = $request->validate(['query' => 'required|string']);
        return response()->json(
            $this->firecrawl->search($validated['query'], $request->input('limit', 5))
        );
    }

    public function scrape(Request $request)
    {
        $validated = $request->validate(['url' => 'required|url']);
        return response()->json($this->firecrawl->scrape($validated['url']));
    }

    public function interact(Request $request)
    {
        $validated = $request->validate([
            'url' => 'required|url',
            'prompt' => 'required|string',
        ]);
        return response()->json(
            $this->firecrawl->interact(
                $validated['url'],
                $validated['prompt'],
                $request->input('followUp')
            )
        );
    }
}

Register routes

In routes/api.php:

use App\Http\Controllers\FirecrawlController;

Route::post('/search', [FirecrawlController::class, 'search']);
Route::post('/scrape', [FirecrawlController::class, 'scrape']);
Route::post('/interact', [FirecrawlController::class, 'interact']);

Test it

php artisan serve

# Search the web
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/search \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "firecrawl web scraping"}'

# Scrape a page
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/scrape \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'

# Interact with a page
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/interact \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://www.amazon.com", "prompt": "Search for iPhone 16 Pro Max", "followUp": "Click on the first result and tell me the price"}'

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

API Reference

Complete REST API documentation