Firecrawl Alternative: Agent-Native Web Data + Full Agent Loop 2026

1import { createAgent } from 'smoke-monkey-harness';
2
3// Firecrawl plugs in as an MCP tool; the runtime runs the loop
4const agent = createAgent({
5  provider: 'anthropic',
6  model: 'claude-sonnet-4',
7  workspacePath: process.cwd(),
8  mcpServers: {
9    firecrawl: { command: 'npx', args: ['-y', 'firecrawl-mcp'] },
10  },
11  permissions: { run_command: 'ask', write_file: 'allow' },
12});
13
14// Crawl, synthesize, write a report, and verify it
15const result = await agent.run('Crawl our 5 competitor pricing pages and update /docs/positioning.md');
16console.log('Verified:', result.status);

1import FirecrawlApp from '@mendable/firecrawl-js';
2
3// A single retrieval call — data in, data out, then stop.
4const app = new FirecrawlApp({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });
5const scrape = await app.scrapeUrl('https://example.com/pricing', {
6  formats: ['markdown', 'extract'],
7});
8console.log(scrape.markdown);
9
10// Firecrawl returns the data. It does not plan, edit files,
11// run tests, self-heal, or orchestrate other agents.