Overview
FirecrawlAgent is an AI crawler from Firecrawl used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
Its primary user-agent pattern is FirecrawlAgent.
FirecrawlAgent is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
FirecrawlAgent is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
FirecrawlAgent should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
-
FirecrawlAgent - Robots Token
- FirecrawlAgent
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify FirecrawlAgent by matching `FirecrawlAgent` to Firecrawl evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Firecrawl
- Operator
- Firecrawl
- Company
- Firecrawl
- Purpose
- Scraping
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- FirecrawlAgent is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
- Detection Notes
- FirecrawlAgent traffic is primarily detected by the `FirecrawlAgent` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Firecrawl infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- FirecrawlAgent has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
-
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent Disallow: /