Firecrawl Web Scraping Automation & Approvals
Run Firecrawl on autopilot. Keep the veto.
30 actions
Web crawl data ships to your downstream tools before you've even seen the extracted errors or cancelled a runaway job. Rills proposes the action, you approve from your phone.
Interactive. No signup. 14 days free · approvals always free.
Most automation fires first, asks later. Rills shows you the change before it ships.
Every consequential other action from Firecrawl arrives on your phone first. Approve in seconds. Decline without explaining yourself. Workflows wait, paused at zero cost, until you decide.
Queue 3
Send 8 agent requests to deep-research 3 competitor sites?
8 requests · 2 crawls per target
Same pattern as last week's batch
No rate-limit errors reported yet
Free to wait. Free to think.
Approvals and logic don't cost a credit. Pause a workflow for three hours or three weeks. The price is the same: zero. You only pay when something real happens: an AI call, an outbound action.
Approve from your phone in five seconds.
Swipe right when you're sure. Decline when you're not. Between meetings, mid-coffee, on the train. No dashboard to babysit, no inbox triage, and no surprise send you find out about after it's already out the door.
Routine cases graduate themselves.
Every approval feeds a confidence score for that exact workflow shape. The obvious cases (the ones you've green-lit fifty times) start running on their own. The judgment calls still come to you.
About Firecrawl automation
An unsupervised crawl can burn your daily credit limit before you notice a bad param. Or a deep research agent fires off 50 requests to a site that just returned a rate-limit error.
When Firecrawl runs unsupervised
A Firecrawl job left on autopilot doesn't pause when your team credit usage spikes or when a crawl parameter is wrong. You only find out when the bill comes.
- Start a web crawl with outdated parameters: the job wastes credits scraping irrelevant pages.
- Deep research fires an agent job that duplicates a previous extraction, doubling costs.
- Extract structured data from a site that has changed its layout: you get broken data into your database.
- Get team credit usage before a batch scrape: you miss the warning and hit the limit mid-job.
- Get errors from a crawl job: the errors stack up silently, and you don't know why the job failed.
What Rills does inside Firecrawl
Rills intercepts each Firecrawl operation before it submits. You see the crawl parameters, the extraction schema, the agent job trigger, and you approve from your phone. The approvals queue lives on your phone, so you don't have to watch the dashboard.
The crawl still happens; you just see it first.
Why Firecrawl has no triggers and how Rills fills the gap
Firecrawl doesn't fire events when a job finishes or when credits run low. Rills fills the gap by checking on your behalf and prompting you to act.
- Schedule a daily check of Get team credit usage and alert you if it dips under 20%.
- After a crawl completes, trigger a follow-up Scrape URL on each discovered page.
- If Get errors from a crawl job returns more than 5 errors, cancel the job and start a new one with corrected parameters.
- Use a webhook from your CRM to start a Deep research agent job whenever a new account signs up.
What Rills can do in Firecrawl
6 of 30 actions across reads, writes, and updates.
- 01
Batch scrape multiple URLs
Efficiently extract content from multiple web pages simultaneously with customizable filtering and output formats. Ideal for gathering data from several sources without manually visiting each page.
- 02
Extract structured data
Automatically extracts and organizes specific data from web pages using natural language instructions or a predefined schema, transforming unstructured web content into structured, usable information.
- 03
Perform deep research
Automatically investigate any topic by analyzing multiple web sources and synthesizing findings into comprehensive insights with citations. Ideal for getting well-researched answers without manually browsing dozens of pages.
- 04
Scrape URL
Extracts content from web pages in your desired format, with optional automation of browser interactions and intelligent data structuring via AI.
- 05
Start a web crawl (v2) [NEW]
Automatically crawl and extract data from websites using natural language instructions, with intelligent discovery of related pages and subdomains. The system handles the entire crawling process and delivers structured results automatically.
- 06
Start an agent job
Launches an autonomous agent that can navigate websites, perform searches, and extract data across multiple pages based on your instructions. This is ideal when you need to gather complex information that requires clicking through multiple pages or interacting with web interfaces.
Common questions about Firecrawl automation
How do I approve a Firecrawl scrape job from my phone?
You set up a Rills workflow that starts a Firecrawl scrape when triggered. The action shows up in your mobile queue. You review the details and swipe to approve before anything runs. Rills won't execute until you say yes. Approvals and logic are free; you only pay for the scrape API call.
Can I cancel a Firecrawl batch scrape job remotely?
Yes. Rills can cancel a batch scrape as soon as you notice a problem. You get a notification, pull up the job on your phone, and approve the cancel action. The job stops before more data is pulled. You stay in control even when you're away from your desk.
How do I automate Firecrawl data extraction without coding?
Pick what you want to extract and set a trigger (a schedule, a webhook from another tool, or a manual start). Rills proposes the extract action, shows you the parameters, and you approve from your phone. The structured data lands where you need it. No code, no surprises.
How is Rills different from Zapier for Firecrawl?
Zapier fires actions automatically the moment a trigger happens. That means a misconfigured crawl can start sending unwanted requests before you catch it. Rills pauses every action until you approve it from your phone. You review the parameters, see the cost estimate, and decide. No silent runs.
Does Rills support Firecrawl deep research actions?
Yes. You can start a deep research job through Rills. When the research completes, Rills sends you a summary and offers to extract the structured data. You approve each step from your phone. Nothing ships to your database without your ok.
Can I schedule Firecrawl crawls with Rills?
Yes. Set a cron or time-based trigger in Rills. When it fires, Rills proposes the crawl action with the parameters you defined. You get a push notification and approve or reject from your phone. The crawl only starts after your approval. Scheduling without losing control.
How do I review Firecrawl crawl errors before retrying?
Rills shows you the errors from your crawl job in the queue. You can check which pages failed and why. Then you can approve a retry with adjusted parameters, or skip. You make the call from your phone before Rills spends another credit. No blind retries.
How much does Rills cost for Firecrawl automation?
Approvals, workflow logic, and the mobile queue are free. You only pay for the actual Firecrawl API calls and external work that Rills executes when you approve an action. No monthly seat fees for building or reviewing workflows. You decide when to spend.