Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a service that fetches a web page, or crawls an entire site, and gives you back clean text that's already stripped of the clutter and ready for an AI to read.

Why it matters

It does the 'grab the page and trim the junk' step for you, and it handles a lot of the tricky pages (the ones that need a browser) automatically. Connect it to Claude Code as an add-on and Claude can just ask for any page.

When to reach for it

When you'd rather not manage the fetching yourself, or when you want to read a whole site at once instead of page by page.

Worth knowing

It's a paid service past a free tier. For one-off pages, a plain fetch is free. For crawling a whole site cleanly, Firecrawl saves real time.