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 58 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #14,938 (top 5%) among 486,860 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 84,238 followers as of September 2026 and has published 2,272 posts. The account has been mentioned by 78 accounts a total of 164 times.
Who follows Firecrawl on X?
The accounts that follow Firecrawl include 384 founders, 77 angel investors, 120 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Garry Tan, Kain, Tommy, Banteg, Matthew Graham and Nick ONeill.