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title: "Firecrawl / Search the web and scrape results"
description: "Firecrawl tool firecrawl-search on looot: input fields, $0.001 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches the web and can scrape each result. Send query; limit, location, tbs (time) and scrapeOptions refine it. Returns data.web with title, URL, description and position. Priced per result.

- **Tool id:** `firecrawl-search`
- **Provider:** [Firecrawl](/providers/firecrawl)
- **Job:** [Search the web and get ranked results](/reference/jobs/web-search) (`web.search`)
- **Price:** $0.001 per result. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ignoreInvalidURLs` | boolean | no | Excludes URLs from the search results that are invalid for other Firecrawl endpoints. This helps reduce errors if you are piping data from search into other Firecrawl API endpoints. |
| `limit` | integer | no | Maximum number of results to return |
| `location` | string | no | Location parameter for search results |
| `query` | string | yes | The search query |
| `scrapeOptions` | string | no | Options for scraping search results |
| `sources` | array | no | Sources to search. Will determine the arrays available in the response. |
| `tbs` | string | no | Time-based search parameter. Supports predefined time ranges (`qdr:h`, `qdr:d`, `qdr:w`, `qdr:m`, `qdr:y`) and custom date ranges (`cdr:1,cd_min:MM/DD/YYYY,cd_max:MM/DD/YYYY`) |
| `timeout` | integer | no | Timeout in milliseconds |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 3 real answers:

```txt
{ id, data: { web: { url, title, position, description }[] }, success, creditsUsed }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"firecrawl-search","input":{"query":"<query>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "firecrawl-search",
    input: {
      query: "<query>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "firecrawl-search",
        "input": {
            "query": "<query>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:web.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/web-search).