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firecrawl-parse

Convert local documents—PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, and more—to clean markdown saved to disk.

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firecrawl parse

Turn a local document into clean markdown on disk. Supports PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML/​HTM/​XHTML.

When to use

  • You have a file on disk (not a URL) and want its text as markdown
  • User drops a PDF/​DOCX and asks what it says, or to summarize it
  • Use scrape instead when the source is a URL

Quick start

Always save to .firecrawl/ with -o — parsed docs can be hundreds of KB and blow up context if streamed to stdout. Add .firecrawl/ to .gitignore.

mkdir -p .firecrawl

# File → markdown
firecrawl parse ./​paper.pdf -o .firecrawl/​paper.md

# AI summary
firecrawl parse ./​paper.pdf -S -o .firecrawl/​paper-summary.md

# Ask a question about the doc
firecrawl parse ./​paper.pdf -Q "What are the main conclusions?" \
  -o .firecrawl/​paper-qa.md

Then head, grep, rg etc., or incrementally read the file - don't load the whole thing at once.

Options

OptionDescription
-S, --summaryAI-generated summary
-Q, --query <prompt>Ask a question about the parsed content
-o, --output <path>Output file path — always use this
-f, --format <fmt>markdown (default), html, summary
--timeout <ms>Timeout for the parse job
--timingShow request duration

Tips

  • Quote paths with spaces: firecrawl parse "./​My Doc.pdf" -o .firecrawl/​mydoc.md.
  • Max upload size: 50 MB per file.
  • Credits: ~1 per PDF page; HTML is 1 flat.
  • Check .firecrawl/ before re-parsing the same file.
  • To check your credit balance (recommended for batch processing and similar workflows), use the firecrawl credit-usage command.

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