The new Firecrawl /search.

Firecrawl Search Highlights

Firecrawl Search Highlights transforms traditional web search by delivering query-relevant passages directly from source pages instead of generic meta descriptions. This intelligent feature automatically extracts meaningful content snippets that answer your specific questions, enabling faster research, more accurate data collection, and seamless integration into AI-powered workflows without additional configuration.

Product Highlights

• Query-Relevant Passages: Automatically replaces generic website descriptions with actual content passages that directly address your search query, sourced directly from the target pages.
• Zero-Configuration Setup: Enabled by default on all /v2/search requests with no additional parameters, output format changes, or scrape options required.
• Markdown-Preserving Format: Retains original formatting including headings, lists, tables, and code blocks when present in source content, ready for immediate rendering or processing.
• Seamless API Integration: Works identically across Python, Node.js, cURL, CLI, and MCP tool implementations with consistent response shapes and familiar field structures.
• Intelligent Fallback Handling: Preserves original descriptions when highlights cannot be generated, ensuring no single unavailable page disrupts your entire search operation.
• Flexible Toggle Control: Easily disable highlights with a single boolean parameter when plain descriptions or snippets better serve your use case.

Use Cases

• AI Research & Development: Power large language model applications with contextually rich, source-verified content that improves response accuracy and reduces hallucinations.
• Automated Knowledge Bases: Build self-updating documentation systems and internal wikis that pull precise answers from external web sources in real-time.
• Competitive Intelligence: Monitor competitor websites and industry publications with extracted passages that highlight specific product features, pricing changes, or strategic announcements.
• Content Curation Platforms: Aggregate and summarize topical content from across the web with automatically extracted relevant snippets that require minimal manual editing.
• Academic & Market Research: Accelerate literature reviews and data gathering by surfacing specific methodological details, findings, or statistics from research papers and reports.

Target Audience

Firecrawl Search Highlights is designed for developers, data engineers, and product teams building AI-powered applications, automated research tools, and intelligent content systems who need reliable, structured web data without the overhead of manual scraping and content extraction.