Unified source library
Alexandria brings together the live web, official APIs, registries, licensed publishers, specialized indexes, and site-specific connectors through one library.
Firecrawl Alexandria
Firecrawl Alexandria is a data library for AI agents, combining the live web, APIs, licensed providers, indexes, and structured tools for research, coding, and analysis.
What is Firecrawl Alexandria?
Firecrawl Alexandria is a data library for AI agents that combines the live web with official providers, specialized indexes, and other structured sources. It gives agents a single way to discover and access information spanning research, coding, finance, companies, government, shopping, news, real estate, jobs, health, travel, and people-related data.
The product is intended to improve agent workflows that need more than general web search. Agents can select a source or capability, retrieve direct or structured data, and use focused results for tasks such as research, developer assistance, company analysis, or economic-data queries. Alexandria is available through MCP, the Firecrawl CLI, and Firecrawl API and SDK tooling.
Key features
Direct source access
Agents can reach data directly from sources that ordinary web search may miss, including company data, product catalogs, government contracts, and code and documentation.
Structured capabilities
The library is built around richer, structured data that agents can process, with capabilities exposing defined inputs, outputs, and pricing.
Specialized indexes
Specialized indexes support focused retrieval: the Research Index covers research abstracts and citation-linked passages, while the Developer Index covers READMEs, issues, pull requests, and documentation.
Multiple developer access paths
Alexandria can be used through MCP and the CLI, or incorporated into applications through Firecrawl's API and SDKs.
Tool discovery and selection
A source-selection flow helps agents discover available providers, choose relevant tools, and retrieve only the data needed for a task.
Practical use cases
Evidence-based research
Use the Research Index to search research abstracts, read relevant passages, and follow citations when an agent needs evidence beyond broad web results.
Software development support
Connect an engineering assistant to the Developer Index for READMEs, issues, pull requests, and documentation while it investigates libraries or helps resolve implementation questions.
Company and market analysis
Use provider and index data for company research, financial analysis, earnings information, market calendars, or economic indicators from sources such as Fiscal.ai, Benzinga, and FRED.
Government information retrieval
Retrieve laws, tax forms, permits, contracts, and other government information from the Government Index and official government sources.
Multi-source agent applications
Build an agent or application that combines web search with Alexandria sources, allowing one workflow to compare general web pages with provider-specific or structured data.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Combines web data, official APIs, licensed publishers, registries, and specialized indexes in one library.
- Provides source-specific access and structured data for agent reasoning instead of relying only on general web results.
- Offers MCP, CLI, API, and SDK access paths for agent and application workflows.
- Includes focused indexes for research, developer documentation, and government information.
Cons
- The supplied product material does not document a separate Alexandria price, usage allowance, or detailed operational limits.
- Available data and workflows vary by provider and capability, so users need to select the appropriate source rather than relying on one uniform dataset.
FAQ
How can developers connect an agent or application to Alexandria?
Alexandria can be connected to an AI agent through MCP or the Firecrawl CLI. The site also shows API and SDK access for building the library into an application, including a Node.js search example that requests both web and Alexandria sources.
What types of sources are available?
The library combines the live web with official APIs, registries, licensed publishers, specialized indexes, and site-specific connectors. Examples shown on the site include FRED, World Bank, Fiscal.ai, Particle, Benzinga, and Firecrawl's Research, Developer, and Government indexes.
What can an agent do with Alexandria data?
Alexandria is designed to return source-level data and richer structured data that an agent can reason over. Capabilities have defined inputs, outputs, and pricing, and the displayed examples include search, reading passages, following citations, and access to company or economic datasets.
How does the Alexandria workflow work?
The site describes a workflow of discovering sources, choosing relevant tools, and getting the data. Alexandria is intended to give an agent focused access to selected sources rather than presenting the entire library as undifferentiated options.
Is Alexandria priced separately?
Alexandria is presented as part of Firecrawl's platform access model. Firecrawl offers a free plan and paid plans for its web-data platform, but the supplied product page does not specify a separate Alexandria price or Alexandria-specific usage allowance.
Quick Facts
- Product type
- AI agent data and source library
- Provider count shown
- 93 providers
- Capabilities shown
- 640 defined capabilities
- Indexed sources shown
- 113M+ papers, READMEs, issues, and documentation sources
- Access methods
- MCP, CLI, API, and SDKs
- Source categories shown
- 20 categories, including research, coding, finance, government, shopping, news, and travel
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