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scope: org
organization: firecrawl
release_count: 6
last_release: 2026-10-08
generated: 2026-04-21
updated: 2026-10-11
canonical: https://releases.sh/firecrawl/overview.md
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Recently shipped Universal Scrape, which pulls web pages, files, and Alexandria provider data through the same API.

**Universal Scrape widened what one `/scrape` call can reach.**

- Web pages and files: dynamic sites, PDFs, images, Word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations by URL, with rendering, retries, and parsing handled for you.
- Provider data: people and company records from Apollo, FullEnrich, and Data Legion; financial data from Fiscal.ai and Benzinga; podcast data from Particle — 200+ providers total.
- One Firecrawl key and credit balance cover both.

**Fantasy sports data is live in Alexandria.** Agents can pair rankings and projections with player and team stats, betting odds, and news to settle start/sit calls in ChatGPT or Claude. A demo takes a pasted roster and suggests lineup changes across scoring formats.

**Alexandria and the Developer Index reached ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, and Claude Code.** Install the Firecrawl plugin, connect your account, and reach the live web plus 100+ data providers and Firecrawl's indexes in the same conversation. Agents using Alexandria scored 21% higher on answer quality than agents on built-in web tools across 845 tasks. Authentication is required; discovery is free and execution bills at each tool's listed price.

**People and company enrichment runs on the same connection.** Agents find decision makers, look up work emails, and pull funding, headcount, and technology data. Discovery is free, and each tool shows its price before it runs.

**Search returns excerpts instead of whole pages.** `/search` scores every paragraph, list, and table against the query, hitting 94.7% on SimpleQA with 10x fewer tokens and no API change. The Research Index added Life Sciences — 41M+ papers, free, at 90% recall@10.