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 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #14,628 (top 5%) among 498,181 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 91,448 followers as of October 2026 and has published 2,310 posts. The account has been mentioned by 106 accounts a total of 225 times.
Who follows Firecrawl on X?
The accounts that follow Firecrawl include 404 founders, 79 angel investors, 123 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Garry Tan, Kain, Banteg, Tommy, Matthew Graham and Soby.