Firecrawl turns 30 million government pages into an agent search gateway
Free agent search packages public law as an acquisition channel for paid web-data infrastructure.
Firecrawl’s free hosted index lets agents query roughly 30 million US government and legal pages and receive ranked passages linked to sources. The review found no effective-date or version history, occasional unofficial or empty results, and a requirement to send the user’s underlying goal with each query; lawyers must still verify official text and protect client details. The free search layer funnels developers toward paid scraping, giving Firecrawl a gatekeeping position over legal discovery while making verification and query privacy part of the product’s economics.