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name: firecrawl-map

description: |

Discover and list a site's URLs, with search filtering. Use when the user knows the site but not the exact page, or wants site structure.

allowed-tools:

- Bash(firecrawl *)

- Bash(npx firecrawl-cli *)

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# firecrawl map

Discover URLs on a site. Use `--search` to find a specific page within a large site.

**Prerequisite:** `map` requires authentication (no keyless free tier); without credentials the CLI prompts an interactive login.

+ ## When to use

+ - You need to find a specific subpage on a large site

+ - You want a list of all URLs on a site before scraping or crawling

+ - Step 3 in the [workflow escalation pattern](../firecrawl/SKILL.md): search → scrape → **map** + scrape → crawl → monitor → interact

## Quick start

```bash

# Find a specific page on a large site

firecrawl map "<url>" --search "authentication" -o .firecrawl/filtered.txt

# Get all URLs

firecrawl map "<url>" --limit 500 --json -o .firecrawl/urls.json

```

- Run `firecrawl map --help` for the full option list (sitemap handling, subdomains, etc.).

+ ## Options

- **Done when:** the URL list is saved under `.firecrawl/` and you have selected the URLs to scrape or crawl next.

+ | Option | Description |

+ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |

+ | `--limit <n>` | Max number of URLs to return |

+ | `--search <query>` | Filter URLs by search query |

+ | `--include-subdomains` | Include subdomain URLs |

+ | `--json` | Output as JSON |

+ | `-o, --output <path>` | Output file path |

## Tips

- **Map + scrape is a common pattern**: use `map --search` to find the right URL, then `scrape` it.

- Example: `map https://docs.example.com --search "auth"` → found `/docs/api/authentication` → `scrape` that URL.

## See also

- [firecrawl-scrape](../firecrawl-scrape/SKILL.md) — scrape the URLs you discover

- [firecrawl-crawl](../firecrawl-crawl/SKILL.md) — bulk extract instead of map + scrape

- [firecrawl-download](../firecrawl-download/SKILL.md) — download entire site (uses map internally)