Integrations / AI Web Scraping
Connect Firecrawl to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns Firecrawl into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Firecrawl for you. Reading data never changes it, so Flann answers questions from Firecrawl straight away. Writing is another matter.
28 actions in Firecrawl. 19 only look things up, and 9 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Firecrawl
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Firecrawl actions.
“Look up the team credit usage in Firecrawl.”
“Show me my errors in Firecrawl.”
“Look up the team queue status in Firecrawl.”
“Start a web crawl in Firecrawl.”
“Generate a LLMs.txt in Firecrawl.”
What Flann can work with in Firecrawl
Firecrawl gives Flann 28 actions across 3 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Errors | look up | 2 |
How the same job compares, in Firecrawl directly and through Flann.
| Compare | Opening FirecrawlLog in, find it, do it | Firecrawl through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | 19 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 9 changes, made from a message |
| Firecrawl records | All of them, one screen at a time | 3 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Firecrawl API key, once |
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Step by step: Firecrawl jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Firecrawl actions, one step at a time.
Get answers about your errors
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our errors in Firecrawl?”
- Flann runs
Get errors from batch scrape jobandGet errors from a crawl jobin Firecrawl and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Firecrawl is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your credit usages from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our credit usages in Firecrawl stand.”
- Flann runs
Get team credit usagein Firecrawl and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Firecrawl is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Firecrawl
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Firecrawl is connected.
Logging daily readings and counts
Today
Fridge temperatures, stock counts or class attendance have to go into Firecrawl every day. They are written on paper first, then typed up when someone remembers.
With Flann
“Fridge one at three degrees, fridge two at four, freezer at minus eighteen. Log it in Firecrawl.”
Your message or voice note becomes a row in Firecrawl, with the date, time and who logged it, and any reading outside the safe range you have set is flagged to you straight away. Simple.
What you stop doing: Typing up paper logs at the end of the day is no longer needed.
Finding what earns and what does not
Today
Instinct tells you which products or services carry the business, but checking means exporting from Firecrawl and sorting a spreadsheet.
With Flann
“Rank our services by revenue for the quarter from Firecrawl. What’s slipping?”
Every product or service in Firecrawl is ranked by revenue and by volume, and Flann points out the ones slipping compared with last quarter. You get the top and the bottom of the list, not the whole thing.
What you stop doing: Exporting and sorting spreadsheets to test a hunch is over.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Firecrawl
- Search for Firecrawl in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Firecrawl API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Firecrawl account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Firecrawl action and fills in the details.
Of the 28 Firecrawl actions, 19 only read. The other 9 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Firecrawl in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Firecrawl with Flann
Ask, do not dig
Ask how this week compares to last. Flann pulls the numbers from Firecrawl and answers in plain words.
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in Firecrawl first.
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads Firecrawl and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Everything Flann can do in Firecrawl
Every Firecrawl action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 19
- Get batch scrape status
- Get crawl job status
- Get extract job status
- Get team credit usage
- Get team token usage
- Get the status of a crawl job
- Map multiple URLs
- Get agent job status
- Get all active crawl jobs
- Get deep research status
- Get errors from a crawl job
- Get errors from batch scrape job
- Get historical team credit usage
- Get historical team token usage
- Get LLMs.txt generation job status
- Get team queue status
- Preview crawl parameters
- Scrape URL
- Search
Changes 9
- Batch scrape multiple URLs
- Cancel a crawl job
- Start an agent job
- Cancel a batch scrape job
- Cancel an agent job
- Extract structured data
- Generate LLMs.txt for a website
- Start a web crawl
- Start a web crawl (v2) [NEW]
More AI Web Scraping apps Flann works with
Google BigQuery
NeonCommon questions
What can Flann do with errors in Firecrawl?
Flann can look up errors in Firecrawl, using 2 actions (Get errors from batch scrape job, Get errors from a crawl job). All of them only look things up, so they run straight away.
How does Flann connect to Firecrawl?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Firecrawl and paste your Firecrawl API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Firecrawl account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 28 actions in Firecrawl.
Do I need to open Firecrawl to use it with Flann?
No. Once Firecrawl is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Firecrawl.
Is Firecrawl included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Firecrawl included.