How do I use rs-trafilatura with Firecrawl?

`pip install rs-trafilatura firecrawl`, init FirecrawlApp with your key, scrape with `formats=["html"]`, then `extract_firecrawl_result(result)`.

What's the difference between Firecrawl Markdown and rs-trafilatura?

Firecrawl gives raw-ish Markdown with noise; rs-trafilatura cleans by page type, adds metadata and quality scores.

Does rs-trafilatura work with Firecrawl batch scraping?

Yes — loop over `batch.data`, extract each. Handles formats and legacy outputs.

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rs-trafilatura Unlocks Firecrawl's Hidden Precision

Firecrawl scrapes the web flawlessly — until it doesn't. rs-trafilatura fixes that, delivering structured intel with confidence scores no other tool matches.

theAIcatchup Apr 03, 2026 3 min read 18 views

Code terminal showing rs-trafilatura extracting title and quality score from Firecrawl HTML

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Pair rs-trafilatura with Firecrawl's HTML output for page-type-aware extraction and quality scores. 𝕏
Ditch noisy Markdown on products/forums; get clean content with metadata like title, author, date. 𝕏
Scale with batch scraping — filter low-quality results automatically for reliable pipelines. 𝕏

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