AutoGen - Firecrawl Docs

Integrate Firecrawl with Microsoft AutoGen to give multi-agent conversations live web search, scrape, and crawl tools.

Setup

pip install -U "autogen-agentchat" "autogen-ext[openai]" firecrawl-py

Set your keys:

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR-API-KEY
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-YOUR-OPENAI-KEY

Firecrawl as an AutoGen Tool

This example wraps Firecrawl’s scrape and search as AutoGen function tools, then lets a single AssistantAgent use them to answer a question.

import asyncio
import os
from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp
from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_agentchat.ui import Console
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient

firecrawl = FirecrawlApp(api_key=os.environ["FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"])


def scrape_url(url: str) -> str:
    """Scrape a URL and return clean markdown."""
    result = firecrawl.scrape(url, formats=["markdown"])
    return result.markdown or ""


def web_search(query: str, limit: int = 5) -> list[dict]:
    """Search the web and return the top results."""
    result = firecrawl.search(query, limit=limit)
    return [
        {"title": r.title, "url": r.url, "snippet": r.description}
        for r in result.web or []
    ]


async def main() -> None:
    model = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(model="gpt-4o-mini")

    researcher = AssistantAgent(
        name="researcher",
        model_client=model,
        tools=[scrape_url, web_search],
        system_message=(
            "You are a web researcher. Use web_search to find candidate sources, "
            "then scrape_url to read the most relevant ones. Cite URLs in your answer."
        ),
    )

    await Console(
        researcher.run_stream(
            task="What does Firecrawl's /agent endpoint do? Cite the docs."
        )
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Run it:

python researcher.py

Multi-Agent: Researcher + Writer

Hand Firecrawl output from a researcher agent to a writer agent in a round-robin team.

import asyncio
import os
from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp
from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_agentchat.conditions import MaxMessageTermination
from autogen_agentchat.teams import RoundRobinGroupChat
from autogen_agentchat.ui import Console
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient

firecrawl = FirecrawlApp(api_key=os.environ["FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"])


def scrape_url(url: str) -> str:
    result = firecrawl.scrape(url, formats=["markdown"])
    return result.markdown or ""


def web_search(query: str, limit: int = 5) -> list[dict]:
    result = firecrawl.search(query, limit=limit)
    return [
        {"title": r.title, "url": r.url, "snippet": r.description}
        for r in result.web or []
    ]


async def main() -> None:
    model = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(model="gpt-4o-mini")

    researcher = AssistantAgent(
        name="researcher",
        model_client=model,
        tools=[scrape_url, web_search],
        system_message="Gather sources with web_search + scrape_url. Reply with bullet-point findings and URLs.",
    )

    writer = AssistantAgent(
        name="writer",
        model_client=model,
        system_message="Turn the researcher's findings into a 200-word briefing with inline citations.",
    )

    team = RoundRobinGroupChat(
        [researcher, writer],
        termination_condition=MaxMessageTermination(max_messages=6),
    )

    await Console(team.run_stream(task="Write a briefing on Firecrawl's crawl endpoint."))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Notes

Firecrawl’s Python SDK is synchronous; AutoGen will call your wrappers inside its event loop without issues for small workloads. For heavy concurrent scraping, move calls off the main thread or use batch scrape.
Replace OpenAIChatCompletionClient with any AutoGen-supported model client (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic via autogen-ext, Ollama, etc.). Firecrawl is model-agnostic.
See the AutoGen docs for agent patterns beyond round-robin (selector, swarm, nested teams).

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