FirecrawlAgent
Firecrawl's LLM data extraction crawler
About this crawler
FirecrawlAgent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FirecrawlAgent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-fetcher. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FirecrawlAgent traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.98%
Technical details
- Name
- FirecrawlAgent
- Pattern
FirecrawlAgent- Tags
- ai-fetcher
- Reference
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.firecrawl.dev- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely FirecrawlAgent with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.firecrawl.dev
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FirecrawlAgent; +https://firecrawl.dev/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FirecrawlAgent:
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FirecrawlAgent [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FirecrawlAgent") {
return 403;
}
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