# One link. Web data, ready.

OctoCrawl turns a public web page into readable content and, on supported pages, fields you can check against the source. [Try a page now](/), then use these guides when you need a durable task or an MCP connection.

> **Availability:** Try the page preview at the URL where you are reading this. The MCP walkthrough below is verified on the same computer as the client. A hosted MCP address and browser login are paused on the roadmap. A hosted page preview does not include hosted MCP or persistent Monitor tasks.

## Try OctoCrawl

Paste `https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction` into [the OctoCrawl page](/) and select **Extract page**. The result shows readable Markdown, the final URL, a page status, and the time from submission until the result is visible. Choose **Format** to see its links, its page info, the fields you set in **Options**, or the whole result JSON instead, then copy or download the output without another extraction.

This is a recorded result from the OctoCrawl capture path, not a guaranteed response for every future visit:

```json
{
  "observedAt": "2026-09-24T08:52:01.350Z",
  "sourceCommit": "936fdf0",
  "requestedUrl": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction",
  "status": "success",
  "finalUrl": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction",
  "title": "Introduction",
  "totalMs": 2509,
  "excerpt": "Get Started\n# Introduction"
}
```

`totalMs` above is the server-side measurement from that capture. The web page displays the longer client-visible time, including network and rendering. A successful page capture does not mean every optional structured field was found.

## When OctoCrawl cannot read a page

OctoCrawl reports a reason instead of inventing content. In another real local capture on the same source commit, a LinkedIn feed URL was stopped by the site's automated-access policy:

```json
{
  "observedAt": "2026-09-24T08:52:48.374Z",
  "sourceCommit": "936fdf0",
  "requestedUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/",
  "status": "blocked",
  "reason": "This site does not allow automated preview of this page.",
  "finalUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/",
  "totalMs": 572
}
```

The preview did not return readable feed content in this result. A separate X request from this local machine **timed out**, so it is not used as an example of a site block. See [result states and limits](/docs/limits/) for the difference.

## Choose your next step

- [Extract a public page](/docs/guides/extract-page/) for the browser workflow.
- [Connect MCP](/docs/connect-mcp/) to ask Codex to preview, monitor, or batch pages with the local service.
- [Check Amazon.sg product JSON](/docs/guides/amazon-product/) when subject identity, region, and currency matter.