Firecrawl is an open-source web crawling and scraping API built for AI agents that converts websites into structured data at scale. Firecrawl's Twitter Score is 52 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #19,628 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Firecrawl was co-founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara. The project is backed by Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and Tobias Lütke, and in August 2025 it raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The platform is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and has accumulated more than 149,000 GitHub stars and over 8,500 forks, reflecting broad adoption in the developer community.
Firecrawl has served more than 5 billion requests and is used by over 1.25 million developers and 150,000 companies, including Apple, Canva, Shopify, Replit, and Zapier. The project drew attention for posting a job advertisement seeking to hire an AI agent as an employee, later expanding that initiative with a budget of up to $1 million to bring on multiple agents alongside their developers.
Firecrawl has 74,347 followers as of July 2026 and has published 2,206 posts. The account has been mentioned by 46 accounts a total of 95 times.
Who follows Firecrawl on X?
The accounts that follow Firecrawl include 335 founders, 59 angel investors, 124 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are Kain, Garry Tan, Banteg, Tommy, Nick ONeill and Matthew Graham.