Firecrawl Search

Search the web with Firecrawl.

What it does

Searches the web and returns page content, not just links. The difference matters for an agent: a list of URLs needs a second step to read them, and this has already done it.

What you need

API key from Firecrawl. firecrawl.dev → Dashboard → API Keys.

Connecting it

Credentials belong to one project, not to your workspace and not to you. A system built for one client never runs on another client's account, and a package handed to a business runs on theirs.

Open the project and stay on the Visual Editor tab.
Open the Tools & Integrations rail on the right.
Find this tool, open it, and paste the credential.

To change it later, open the same panel — you can leave the key blank to keep the stored one and change only the other field.

Using it in a step

An Action step runs one tool with the arguments you type, exactly as written, with no model involved — so it costs nothing per run and behaves the same every time. Add one from the canvas toolbar, choose Firecrawl Search, and fill in:

Field	Required	What goes in it
`query`	yes	What to look for. Returns page content, not just links.

Values can carry results forward: {{previous}} is the step before, and {{row:column}} is a column from the row this run is about when the trigger fans out.

Press Try it to run the step on its own before committing to a whole sequence.

Using it with an agent

Tick Firecrawl Search on any agent that should be able to call it, and the agent decides when to. Use an agent when the judgement matters and an Action step when the certainty does.

A worked example

A sales agent researching a prospect gets the company's own description in its own words, rather than a list of links somebody still has to open.

When it goes wrong

Results are thin for Nigerian local queries. Try Serper for those — it is closer to what a person would get from a search engine here.