Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

Research & web data Firecrawl

Is Firecrawl safe?

Short answer: No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of firecrawl/firecrawl found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. It does list 8 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Automated scan of commit 6b02a6c on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed. Checked again on 2 Nov 2026, no change.

Web scraping and crawling API that turns websites into LLM-ready data.

  • 197,743 stars
  • pushed 2 Nov
  • AGPL-3.0
  • TypeScript

github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl · firecrawl.dev

78score out of 100

#1of 52 overall#1in Research & web datasame score as Week 44

  • Maintenance 30%80
  • Adoption 30%81
  • Docs 20%69
  • Community 20%–
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Score over the last 4 weeks: 77, 79, 78, 78.

No issues found

All checks clean in the scan of 2 Nov 2026.

How this score works

Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.

  • Maintenance: Last push 2 Nov 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 2 days (about 109 per 30 days), latest release 2 Nov 2026. Issue close time: fewer than 5 closed issues, so not used.
  • Adoption: 197,743 stars (70%), 10,448 forks (30%).
  • Docs: README 24,988 characters, 49 headings, 50 code blocks, install section: yes.

Methodology

#1 of 6 in Research & web data

Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.

Research & web data, Week 45score 0–100, safety
  1. 1Firecrawl#1 overall78No issues found
  2. 2Browser Use#15 overall62Caution
  3. 3MarkItDown#22 overall54No dependencies scanned
  4. 4Crawl4AI#26 overall52Caution
  5. 5GPT Researcher#46 overall31Caution
  6. 6STORM#49 overall26Caution

Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026

Automated scan of commit 6b02a6c, 1,615 files. Not a manual audit.

No issues found

  • 0Critical dependency advisories8 high, 8 medium, 4 low. OSV, runtime dependencies only.
  • 1Install hooksnpm scripts that run on install; none downloads remote content.
  • 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
  • 18Agent files checked0 phrases flagged for review.
  • 3curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?

No issues found by the automated scan.

Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): 0 critical, 8 high, 8 medium, 4 low, 11 unrated

Also found (informational, does not change the label):

  • 8 high-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
  • 1 npm install hook, none downloading remote content
  • Documents curl|sh style installer (3 occurrences, e.g. apps/api/Dockerfile)

Notes:

  • 41 affected packages only in dev/test/docs manifests, not counted
  • Telemetry/analytics references in code: telemetry, posthog

Automated scan of commit 6b02a6c on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 1,615 files checked. What we check

Repo activity

From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.

  • 10+Releases, 90 daysLatest v2.11.645, 2 Nov
  • –Median issue closeFewer than 5 closed issues
  • 198kStarsGitHub stars
  • 10.4kForks745 open issues
  • 2024Repo created15 Apr 2024
30 days ago2 Nov
10 releases in the last 30 days, one mark each (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries).

10 releases in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):

Questions about Firecrawl

Answers use this week's StackGrade data.

Is Firecrawl safe to use?

No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of firecrawl/firecrawl found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. It does list 8 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Automated scan of commit 6b02a6c on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

How does StackGrade score Firecrawl?

Firecrawl scores 78 out of 100 in Week 45: #1 of 52 tracked tools overall and #1 in Research & web data. The score combines maintenance (80), adoption (81) and docs (69) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.

What are the alternatives to Firecrawl?

The highest-scored other tools in Research & web data this week: Browser Use (62, Caution), MarkItDown (54, No dependencies scanned), Crawl4AI (52, Caution), GPT Researcher (31, Caution). StackGrade has not tested them hands-on.

What licence does Firecrawl use?

The licence listed for firecrawl/firecrawl is AGPL-3.0. Read the licence text before commercial use.

Compare and use it

All facts and sources
Type
AI tool
License
AGPL-3.0
Language
TypeScript
Created
15 Apr 2024
Owner
firecrawl (Organization)
Forks
10,448

GitHub description: “Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥”

Sources: github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl, api.github.com/repos/mendableai/firecrawl, raw.githubusercontent.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/main/README.md. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.

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