Turn ANY Website into LLM Data with n8n and Firecrawl artificialintelligence n8n aiagent



AI Summary

Scraping Websites with Firecrawl and Nadin

Overview

  • Firecrawl enables easy transformation of websites into LLM-ready data.
  • It is open source.

Key Features of Firecrawl

  1. Scrape: Gather data from websites.
  2. Crawl: Explore website structures.
  3. Map: Create visual representations of site data.
  4. Extract: Request structured data extraction from URLs with prompts.

Usage of Extract Function

  • Allows extraction of structured data from one or multiple URLs.
  • Utilize wildcards by adding an asterisk (*) after a URL to scrape all associated pages.
  • Automatically crawls and parses URLs to discover and extract requested data.

Process

  1. Call the extract function with a URL and prompt for data.
  2. Test the setup to confirm the request.
  3. After a delay, check back to see if the extraction has been fulfilled, accessing the ID provided to verify the data.
  4. Example given: retrieval of 83 quotes from extracted data, surpassing previous attempts.

Additional Resources

  • Full breakdown available via the link in the video description.