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This is cool, seems like a nice way to easily add context for ChatGPT at the least
* Creator here - Thats the goal!
And you honor or ignore robots.txt?
It wasn't in our initial version (we didn't plan on launching today), but we are pushing an update to do so now.
What user agent does it use and do you obey robots.txt?

* apparently not as I tested it with LinkedIn.com which blocks most non-google/bing bots and it crawls it OK

> FireCrawl is built to navigate common web scraping challenges, including reverse proxies, rate limits, and caching

They probably ignore robots.txt

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Does this respect any anti AI related scraping rules set forth by website owners?
It doesn't even respect general robots.txt exclusions, so... I doubt it.
Do you have pay-as-you-go pricing? I feel that’s always missing from things like this. Cool otherwise.