Pulling clean, current data off the web is one of the messiest jobs in building an AI product — pages change, scrapers break, and someone has to keep fixing them. Prometheus, a new release from Firecrawl, hands that whole job to an agent.
## What Prometheus does
Firecrawl calls Prometheus a Forward Deployed Agent for web data. You describe the data you need in plain language, and it writes the Firecrawl code to collect it. From there you can run that code yourself, or let Firecrawl host it and automatically maintain it as the target pages change — so the scraper keeps working without you babysitting selectors.
## Built on Firecrawl’s web APIs
Prometheus sits on top of Firecrawl’s existing toolkit, which wraps search, scraping, crawling, and structured extraction into APIs. The platform exposes four modes: Scrape pulls clean content from a single URL, Crawl recursively follows internal links across a domain, Map returns every URL on a site, and Agent takes a natural-language prompt. For teams whose agents need fresh web context, it turns ongoing scraper maintenance into a managed service rather than a standing chore.

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