2025-12-20 13:38:38

The crawler community might be about to undergo a reshuffle. Everyone who has used Firecrawl knows that this upgrade is indeed quite aggressive.

What about the old methods—environment setup, rule writing, anti-crawling countermeasures, CAPTCHA solving? It used to take several hours to get everything done. Now, there's a new approach: just give it the requirements, and it handles everything else. Web-wide search, automatic crawling, data cleaning—all-in-one service.

The most impressive thing is the versatility of this tool. PDFs, DOCX documents pose no problem; even image content can be directly parsed. In other words, regardless of your data source format, it can handle it. For developers working on data aggregation and information extraction, this definitely saves a lot of trouble. When Web3 projects perform on-chain data analysis or fetch off-chain information, the advantages of such tools become even more apparent.

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OnlyOnMainnet

· 13h ago

Really, after using Firecrawl for a week, I feel like all those anti-crawling scripts I wrote before were pointless. This time it's truly awesome—images and documents are all covered, on-chain and off-chain data captured in one go. In the past, I had to spend ages dealing with CAPTCHAs, but now I just throw it at Firecrawl, and it's incredibly satisfying. Feels like the crawling industry might be losing its job... But honestly, if the stability keeps up, this tool could really replace a bunch of other tools. Has anyone run it in a production environment? How's the reliability?

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