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Search - Firecrawl (robust)
Search - Firecrawl (robust)
Search the web using Firecrawl's API and real-time crawling. Includes URL search, content extraction, Wikipedia, Reddit, and news search tools.
Use this when Firecrawl is your search provider and your chat agent needs to find pages by query rather than scrape URLs you already have.
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Problems solved
Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.
- Search the web with a Firecrawl tool in a basic agent flow
- Return crawlable search results for model synthesis
- Demonstrate Firecrawl search wiring with the AI SDK
Use cases
Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.
- Firecrawl search onboarding demos
- Web research lookup tools
- Content discovery prototypes
- Search-backed assistant samples
Compare with
Similar patterns, and when each one is the better fit.
Firecrawl Scrape Tool ChatCrawl and extract content using Firecrawl's API. Includes URL processing, markdown conversion, and structured data extraction.
Search - Exa AI (robust)FreeUse this when you want Exa search split into separate tools for news, Reddit, Wikipedia, and URLs, so the model picks the right source.
SEO AuditUse this when a marketing team needs exportable SEO scorecards that check title, meta description, and Open Graph tags and list top fixes for a page.
Competitor Research AgentUse this when you have one competitor URL and need a brief you can trust: pricing, features, and tech read from the site, plus agent analysis that quotes its evidence.
Setup
Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.
Getting started
Pick how you want to pull this pattern in. Then wire env vars and routes the same way.
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Download → Next.js app
Use Download → Next.js app in the preview toolbar. You get a zip scaffold (Pro downloads rewrite preview `/view/.../api/*` paths to `/api/*` automatically).
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Extract the zip and install dependencies
Unzip the archive, then run `pnpm install` (or npm / yarn) in the project folder.
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Fill .env.local
The download includes .env.local placeholders when needed. Add real values for: OPENAI_API_KEY, FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
- 4
Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions in the generated project for your product.
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Run the app and open the pattern route
Run `pnpm dev`, open the setup/checklist page if present, then navigate to the generated pattern route and verify responses.
Environment variables
Capabilities
AI SDK APIs
streamTextconvertToCoreMessagestooluseChatProviders
OpenAI
External services
Firecrawl
Files added
6 files
app/page.tsxapp/layout.tsxapp/api/tool-search-firecrawl/route.tscomponents/firecrawl-search-demo.tsxtools/firecrawl.tstools/firecrawl-ui.tsx
Dependencies
11 total
npm packages
6AISDK@mendable/firecrawl-jslucide-reactNext.jsReactZod
Registry components
alertemptyinput-groupseparatortooltip
Critical files
2 files
tool-search-firecrawl/route.tsAPI route implementing a web research assistant using streamText with Firecrawl tools. Contains the AI pipeline with system prompt, tool binding, and step count limits.
tools/firecrawl.tsCore tool definitions for Firecrawl SDK. Defines 5 AI tools (scrapeUrl, searchWeb, crawlWebsite, mapWebsite, trackChanges) with Zod schemas and execute functions.
Requirements
- Complexity
- Beginner
