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Crawls respect robots.txt and site rate limits configured in Firecrawl.","intents":["I need to crawl an entire website and extract all content for indexing or analysis","I want to submit a large crawl job and check progress without blocking my agent","I need to archive or analyze all pages on a domain systematically"],"best_for":["large-scale content extraction (100+ pages per site)","workflows where crawl latency is acceptable and async polling is feasible","teams building web archival or competitive intelligence systems"],"limitations":["Asynchronous only — returns job_id immediately, requires polling for results","No streaming results — must wait for crawl completion before accessing content","Crawl timeout and depth limits enforced by Firecrawl (typically 30min timeout, configurable depth)","Large sites may be truncated or timeout — no pagination or resumption mechanism","Client must implement polling loop — no built-in webhook or callback support"],"requires":["FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (cloud) or FIRECRAWL_API_URL (self-hosted)","Valid domain URL (required)","Client-side polling mechanism to check crawl status periodically","Patience — crawls can take minutes to hours depending on site size"],"input_types":["URL string (domain root, required)","optional crawl depth limit"],"output_types":["job_id string (immediate response)","crawl status object with progress, completed pages, and result URLs (from status check)"],"categories":["automation-workflow","tool-use-integration"],"confidence":0.5,"matches":0,"success_rate":0},{"id":"github-firecrawl--firecrawl-mcp-server__cap_6","uri":"capability://tool.use.integration.asynchronous.batch.status.polling.with.result.aggregation","name":"asynchronous batch status polling with result aggregation","description":"Polls the status of a previously-submitted batch scraping job using firecrawl_check_batch_status, accepting a batch_id and returning completion percentage, processed URLs, and result data. 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