Automate Firecrawl

Use Firecrawl to read web pages as clean text and pull out fields like price or stock, then act when something changes. Track a pricing page, a product listing or a competitor's features page without visiting it yourself. Describe it to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 6 hours, scrape https://example.com/pricing with Firecrawl and, if the content is different from last time, email me what changed.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Firecrawl

Emails when a page you care about changes, price drops caught as they happen, and a plain summary of what competitors updated. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.

Every few hours

Get an email when a web page changes

When the text on a page you watch changes, you get the difference by email instead of checking by hand.

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DailyAI

Get a plain summary of competitor site changes

A short note on what competitors changed on the pages you track, sent only when something meaningful moved.

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On a schedule

Catch a product price drop

You get an email as soon as a product's price falls below the number you set.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Firecrawl, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Firecrawl automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Firecrawl should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every day, use Firecrawl to read the pricing pages of five sites I list and tell me in a short digest only when a plan price or plan name changed since yesterday.

Every Monday, crawl the job boards I list with Firecrawl, pull out role, company and location, and add new remote engineering roles as rows in Google Sheets.

Every morning, scrape the news pages in my Notion list with Firecrawl, have AI summarize anything mentioning our company, save the summaries to Notion and post the top three in Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Firecrawl work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Firecrawl to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

On a schedule
Get an email when a web page changes
Every few hours
On a schedule
Get a plain summary of competitor site changes
Daily
On a schedule
Catch a product price drop
On a schedule

Setup

Connect Firecrawl

You connect Firecrawl with an API key from your Firecrawl dashboard. Every scrape it runs is billed in credits on your own Firecrawl plan.

Firecrawl

Data / Web scraping

Sign in to Firecrawl and open API Keys in the dashboard.
Copy your key. It starts with fc-.
In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret.

Good to know

Firecrawl limits that affect automations

Firecrawl charges credits for each scrape, so checking a page every few hours uses more credits than checking it daily.
Crawls of whole sites run as background jobs and finish later, unlike a single-page scrape.

FAQ

Questions about automating Firecrawl

What does ClickRuntime use Firecrawl for?

To fetch pages as readable text and, when you ask, extract specific fields such as price or availability. ClickRuntime remembers the last version so it can tell you what changed.

How often can it check a page?

As often as you schedule it, such as every few hours or once a day. Each check spends Firecrawl credits, so pick a pace that fits your plan.

Will it email me if nothing changed?

No. The change and price automations stay quiet until the content differs from the last check or the price crosses your threshold.

Is AI needed for the competitor summary?

Yes, that one uses AI to describe the changes in plain words. AI comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key. The other watches work without it.

Is this a Firecrawl connector for ChatGPT or Claude?

Not for chatting with Firecrawl data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Firecrawl while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Firecrawl event.

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Tell your assistant what Firecrawl should do

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