OpenRouter - Firecrawl Docs

Pair OpenRouter — a unified API for hundreds of LLMs — with Firecrawl to give any model live web search, scrape, and crawl.

OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible, so you can use the OpenAI SDK pointed at OpenRouter's base URL plus Firecrawl's Python or JavaScript SDK as the tool.

Setup#

npm install firecrawl openai zod

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEYexport OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-YOUR-OPENROUTER-KEY

Scrape + Summarize with Any OpenRouter Model#

This scrapes a page with Firecrawl and summarizes it with whatever model you pick from OpenRouter — here, Claude Haiku 4.5.

import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';import OpenAI from 'openai';const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });const openrouter = new OpenAI({  apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,  baseURL: 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1',});const scraped = await firecrawl.scrape('https://docs.firecrawl.dev', {  formats: ['markdown'],});const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({  model: 'anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5',  messages: [    { role: 'user', content: `Summarize in 5 bullets: ${scraped.markdown}` },  ],});console.log(completion.choices[0]?.message.content);

Switch the model string to any OpenRouter-supported model — openai/gpt-5, google/gemini-2.5-pro, meta-llama/llama-4-maverick, etc.

Tool Calling: Model Decides When to Scrape#

OpenRouter supports OpenAI-style tool calls, so Firecrawl plugs in as a function the model can invoke.

import { Firecrawl } from 'firecrawl';import OpenAI from 'openai';import { z } from 'zod';const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });const openrouter = new OpenAI({  apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,  baseURL: 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1',});const ScrapeArgs = z.object({  url: z.string().describe('The URL to scrape'),});const tools = [  {    type: 'function' as const,    function: {      name: 'scrape_website',      description: 'Scrape the markdown content of any URL via Firecrawl',      parameters: z.toJSONSchema(ScrapeArgs),    },  },];const response = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({  model: 'anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5',  tools,  messages: [    {      role: 'user',      content: 'What is Firecrawl? Visit firecrawl.dev and tell me.',    },  ],});const call = response.choices[0]?.message.tool_calls?.[0];if (call?.function.name === 'scrape_website') {  const { url } = ScrapeArgs.parse(JSON.parse(call.function.arguments));  const page = await firecrawl.scrape(url, { formats: ['markdown'] });  console.log(page.markdown);}

Python#

import osfrom firecrawl import Firecrawlfrom openai import OpenAIfirecrawl = Firecrawl(api_key=os.environ["FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"])openrouter = OpenAI(    api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"],    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",)page = firecrawl.scrape("https://docs.firecrawl.dev", formats=["markdown"])completion = openrouter.chat.completions.create(    model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": f"Summarize: {page.markdown}"}],)print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

Notes#

Firecrawl is fully model-agnostic — pick any OpenRouter model without changing the scrape code.
Many top OpenRouter apps (Cline, Roo Code, Kilo, Cursor, Continue) are agent harnesses that can use Firecrawl MCP. Start with the MCP setup chooser to connect one.
For large jobs, use batch scrape to stay within LLM context budgets.