Firecrawl /scrape now reads PDFs, images, Word files, spreadsheets and presentations by URL. PDF parsing costs 1 credit per page.
On October 8, 2026, Firecrawl's changelog introduced Universal Scrape. The /scrape endpoint now reads dynamic websites, PDFs, images, Word documents, spreadsheets and presentations by URL. Firecrawl says it handles rendering, retries and parsing.
The same endpoint can also call supported Alexandria data providers, such as people profiles, financial data and podcasts.
The scrape docs state these costs:
Wirestack
FIRECRAWL_API_KEYfirecrawl SDK, as the announcement asksfirecrawl SDK to the latest version./scrape the same way you would pass a web page. The docs give this Python line for a PDF:doc = firecrawl.scrape("https://example.com/report.pdf", formats=["markdown"])
print(doc.markdown)/parse instead.Scrape a short PDF by URL and check that clean markdown text comes back. Then check your credit usage went up by the number of pages.