Extract and API improvements: v1.4.2
Web search inside extract with enableWebSearch, source tracking, configurable webhook events, a map timeout, and ad blocking on by default.
Developer ToolsSource: Firecrawl Changelog
Firecrawl changelog: January 2025
5 releases from to
Everything Firecrawl shipped in January 2025, collected from official Firecrawl sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.
January 2025 at a glance
January 2025 was Firecrawl's busiest month of the 8 we had tracked by then: 5 releases, about 2.2× its monthly average of 2. That was 4 releases more than December 2024. Most were Developer Tools (3), followed by API (1) and Product (1).
Releases
5
+4 vs December 2024
Rank of 8 months
1st
Average 2.3 a month
Most shipped
Developer Tools
3 releases
Notable Firecrawl launches in January 2025
- Product
Alexandria Product Launch
Introduction of Alexandria, a new product for web data extraction
Source: Firecrawl Blog - API
v1.2.0: Introducing /search
The new /search endpoint returns web results for any query, with optional full page markdown via scrapeOptions, plus extract fixes and MinerU for PDFs.
Source: Firecrawl Changelog - Developer Tools
Extract and API improvements: v1.4.2
Web search inside extract with enableWebSearch, source tracking, configurable webhook events, a map timeout, and ad blocking on by default.
Source: Firecrawl Changelog
All Firecrawl releases in January 2025
Newest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
January 20255 releases
Alexandria Product Launch
Introduction of Alexandria, a new product for web data extraction
ProductSource: Firecrawl Blog
Extract improvements: v1.4.1
Extract returns more data, parsing moves from Cheerio to a Rust-based parser, infrastructure is more reliable, and crawl cancellation is more responsive.
Developer ToolsSource: Firecrawl Changelog
/extract is now asynchronous
Extract requests return a job ID to poll for status. The API stays backwards compatible for 10 days, and the SDKs handle the change for you.
Developer ToolsSource: Firecrawl Changelog
v1.2.0: Introducing /search
The new /search endpoint returns web results for any query, with optional full page markdown via scrapeOptions, plus extract fixes and MinerU for PDFs.
Where January 2025 sits
Firecrawl releases per month, for January 2025 and the 7 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.
Other companies in January 2025
7 of the companies we track shipped in January 2025; Firecrawl ranks 1st by number of releases.
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