# Fastcrawl

> Cloud scraping & crawling API for AI agents. Turn any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown, screenshots, PDFs and structured JSON — over REST or MCP.

Key facts:
- Free tier: 2,000 credits/month · 100/day · 20 req/min · no card required
- Paid: Go $5/mo (5,000 credits) · Pro $20/mo (20,000 credits) · extra $1 per 1,000 credits
- REST at /api/v1/ · MCP at /mcp/ (12 tools)
- Official SDKs (unpublished): `pip install fastcrawl` · `npm i fastcrawl`

## Product
- [Homepage](/): live demo, pricing, endpoints
- [Dashboard](/app): signup, API keys, billing
- [llms.txt](/llms.txt): this file

## REST API (base: /api/v1/)
- POST /scrape — URL → clean markdown/html, JS-rendered
- POST /crawl — async BFS crawl with status polling
- POST /map — discover URLs from sitemap + links
- POST /search — ranked web results
- POST /extract — schema-driven JSON (LLM)
- POST /screenshot — full-page PNG
- POST /pdf — page rendered to PDF
- POST /parse — PDF URL → markdown
- POST /batch/scrape — up to 10 URLs
- POST /monitors — scheduled re-scrapes + change detection
- GET /usage — plan-aware credit metering
- GET /me — who you are, what plan you are on
- Auth: Authorization Bearer header with your API key. Failed calls are never charged.

## MCP (https://mcp.fastcrawl.net/mcp)
12 tools, PAT Bearer auth, streamable HTTP:
scrape · crawl · map · search · extract · screenshot · pdf · parse · monitor_create · monitor_list · monitor_run · monitor_delete