Last updated · 64 releases tracked since June 2024
A dated log of everything Firecrawl has shipped, collected from official Firecrawl sources and updated as new releases land.
Firecrawl launched Alexandria's people and company enrichment with Apollo, FullEnrich, and Data Legion integrations, introduced Universal Scrape for web and file context, and announced a $75M Series B. Fantasy sports data was also added to Alexandria.
Summary of October 2026, generated from the releases listed below.
This month
5
+1 vs last month
Last 12 months
36
Busiest: February 2026
Most shipped
Developer Tools
14 releases
Newest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
Introducing Universal Scrape . Give your agents context from web pages, PDFs and images, plus people profiles, financial data, podcasts and beyond. Access the web, files and a growing set of Alexandria providers, all with one API.
Your AI agents can now research fantasy sports with Firecrawl Alexandria. Bring fantasy rankings and projections together with player and team stats, sports betting odds and the latest news to make more informed lineup decisions in ChatGPT or Claude.
Introduces people and company enrichment in Alexandria with Apollo, FullEnrich, and Data Legion integrations.
Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B. Read the announcement →
Firecrawl Alexandria now supports Apollo, FullEnrich, and Data Legion for people enrichment, enabling agents to find contact details and company insights via a unified API.
Alexandria and the Developer Index are now in ChatGPT and Codex
Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B. Alexandria is the knowledge library for superintelligence. It gives AI agents a common way to discover sources and retrieve information through Firecrawl, bringing together the live web, official data providers, site-specific connect…
Alexandria is now in Claude and Claude Code
Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B
Firecrawl Developer Index The Firecrawl Developer Index is now available, a specialized index for coding agents. It covers 70M+ artifacts across READMEs, external documentation, issues, pull requests, and OpenAPI specs, with semantic retrieval and metadata filters.
Firecrawl Developer Index is now available, a specialized index for coding agents
Life Sciences in Firecrawl Research Index
Introducing our most accurate /search yet
/search now returns the excerpts that best answer your query from each result. Agents using it achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on SimpleQA while using 10x fewer tokens than processing full pages.
Web-scale /monitor watches the entire web for you. Define search queries and a goal, and Firecrawl pings you or your agent the moment something new comes online.
v2.11.0 is live. Firecrawl v2.11.0 ships the Firecrawl Research Index, keyless endpoint access, automatic PII redaction, a deterministicJson format, and video discovery on any page - plus much more.
Firecrawl v2.11.0 introduces Research Index for 3M+ arXiv papers, keyless access, PII redaction, deterministic JSON, video discovery, and enhanced monitor alerts. Improves scrape reliability, PDF size cap, and API stability.
Firecrawl launches /monitor, a web monitoring solution that notifies AI agents when web content changes. The service automatically detects meaningful updates, provides structured diffs, and integrates with agents via webhooks or email.
Firecrawl v2.10 enhances parsing with file uploads up to 50MB, introduces Lockdown Mode for secure scraping, adds new formats like 'question' and 'highlights', expands SDK support, and improves API reliability with fixes and deprecations.
Firecrawl v2.9.0 adds browser interaction via /interact, query format, audio output, Java/Elixir SDKs, and PDF parsing improvements. Includes API updates and numerous fixes.
Firecrawl launches /interact, a new endpoint enabling live browser interaction for scraping and data extraction
Launches the Java SDK with full support for scrape, search, crawl, map, and agent endpoints, plus Maven and Gradle support for Java 17+.
Ships a Rust-based PDF parser that is faster and more reliable, with fast, auto, and OCR modes for complex documents.
Launches a managed remote browser environment with Playwright, agent-browser, multi-language execution, live view, and session management.
Firecrawl is now available as an official plugin in Claude's plugin marketplace, giving Claude direct access to live, clean web data through various commands like /firecrawl:scrape, /firecrawl:crawl, and the Firecrawl agent for autonomous web data extraction.
Improves branding extraction with more reliable logo detection, better support for Wix and Framer sites, and richer brand data for agents.
Brings parallel agents, the Firecrawl CLI, the Firecrawl Skill, a new Spark model family, and broader agent tooling upgrades.
Adds parallel processing to /agent so users can batch hundreds or thousands of research queries with spreadsheet-style feedback and automatic fallback.
Launches a one-command CLI and skill so AI agents can scrape, search, crawl, and map the web without manual setup.
Firecrawl v2.7.0 adds ZDR Search for enterprises, improved branding detection, partner API beta, faster screenshots, and self-host enhancements. New features include NOQ scrape system, redirect handling, and UUIDv7 IDs.
v2.6.0 release features unified billing, enhanced change tracking, and improved reliability.
Firecrawl v2.5 introduces a custom browser stack for high-quality web data extraction and a semantic index that improves coverage, speed, and historical data access capabilities.
Firecrawl v2.4.0 introduces PDF search, Gemini 2.5 Flash CLI image editor, x402 search API, RabbitMQ event system, improved crawl status, and more. Enhanced tracing, metrics, and self-hosted webhook support.
Firecrawl v2.3.0 adds YouTube transcript support, enterprise auto-recharge, odt/rtf parsing, 50x faster docx, K8s deployment, and self-host improvements. Fixes stability issues and enhances security.
Firecrawl v2.2.0: MCP version 3 with HTTP/SSE support, enhanced webhooks, 15x faster map, new /team/queue-status endpoint, and performance optimizations.
Firecrawl v2.1.0 adds search categories (GitHub, research), image extraction, data-* attribute support, hash-based routing, improved Google Drive/pdf scraping, API enhancements, and security fixes.
Fixes SSRF vulnerability via malicious webhook. Self-hosted users should update to v2.0.1 immediately. Details: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/security/advisories/GHSA-p2wg-prhf-jx79
Firecrawl v2.0.0 introduces faster defaults with 2-day caching, new summary format, updated JSON extraction, enhanced screenshot options, and smart crawling with natural language prompts. SDKs updated with async flows and type changes.
Firecrawl v1.15.0 released with SSO for enterprise, improved scraping reliability, search param logging, FireGEO example, and 50+ PRs for bug fixes and enhancements.
Firecrawl v1.14.0 introduces authenticated scraping, zero data retention for enterprise, improved p75 speeds, new MCP version with maxAge, and open researcher example. Key fixes and enhancements included.
Firecrawl v1.13.0 adds subdomain crawling, Google Slides scraping, PDF generation, higher res screenshots, and international URL support. Improves error handling and removes old caches.
Fireplexity is an open-source Next.js application enabling developers to build and host their own AI-powered answer engine. It leverages Firecrawl for web scraping, smart content selection, and real-time AI synthesis with citations.
v1.12.0 release includes new concurrency system, domain crawling parameter, Google Docs scraping, improved activity logs, and playground enhancements.
Firecrawl v1.11.0 introduces Firecrawl Index, 5x faster scrapes, improved activity logs, webhook management, Java SDK, and more. Enhances performance and scalability for developers.
Introducing Search API with web search and scraping, supporting markdown, HTML, links, and screenshots. Enhances SDKs, custom parameters, and includes fixes for timeouts, Redis, and more.
Firecrawl v1.9.0: Enhanced self-host capabilities, faster crawling, cacheable system, increased map endpoint limits (30k links), Qwen3 crawler example, and stability fixes.
Launch of Firecrawl Templates feature providing ready-to-use examples for web data extraction and AI agent development.
Firecrawl v1.8.0 Launch Week III includes 20+ integrations, MCP upgrades, Python/Rust SDK improvements, LLMstxt.new, /extract v2, FIRE-1 Agent, and more.
Firecrawl announces new integrations with 20+ platforms including Discord, n8n, Langflow, and LlamaIndex to enhance workflow flexibility and data pipelines.
Major updates to Firecrawl MCP server including FIRE-1 model support and Server-Sent Events (SSE) implementation for real-time data flow
Announced new Python and Rust SDKs, Firecrawl Dark Theme for code editors, and quality of life updates for developers
Introducing Change Tracking, a new Firecrawl feature that automatically detects and details changes on websites, now available in beta for all users.
Official Firecrawl Editor Theme released for editors like VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, offering a clean coding experience.
Firecrawl v1.7.0: Introduces Deep Research Open Alpha, llmstxt.new for website analysis, improved concurrency, Compare Beta, and supports models like Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5. Fixes include circular JSON error and crawler enhancements.
Introduces LLMs.txt API for converting websites to LLM-ready text and Deep Research API for AI-powered web analysis. Includes fixes, enhancements, and new features like AI-SDK migration and self-hosting support.
Introduction of Alexandria, a new product for web data extraction
Introduced the Batch Scrape Endpoint for simultaneous URL scraping with synchronous and asynchronous methods.
Introduces mobile device emulation for scraping and screenshots, enabling interaction with sites as if from a mobile device. Includes high-fidelity mobile screenshots, mobile layout testing, and access to mobile-only content.
Introducing Location and Language Settings to specify country and language parameters for localized web scraping results
Introduces Fire Engine, a new scraping backend for Firecrawl that improves reliability by 40% and speed by up to 33.17% through advanced browser management and request handling techniques.
Released new integrations with Gamma, Dify, FlowiseAI, and Praison; launched Firecrawl Dashboard with analytics and job management; added custom headers support, improved metadata, and SDK local instance support; introduced fresh tutorials and examples for platform usage.
Releases per month over the last 12 months. Busiest month: February 2026, 5 releases.
Releases in the last 12 months by category and product.
The most recent Firecrawl update we track is “Introducing Universal Scrape”, released on October 8, 2026.
Firecrawl shipped 5 updates in October 2026, including “Introducing Universal Scrape”, “Fantasy sports data is live in Alexandria”, “People and company enrichment in Alexandria” and 2 mores.
We tracked 36 updates from Firecrawl in the last 12 months, about 3 a month. The busiest month was February 2026, with 5 releases.
Firecrawl publishes release notes on Firecrawl Changelog, linked at the top of this page. Every entry here links back to the official page it came from.
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