POST
/
crawl
Crawl multiple URLs based on options
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/crawl \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "url": "<string>",
  "excludePaths": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "includePaths": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "maxDepth": 10,
  "maxDiscoveryDepth": 123,
  "ignoreSitemap": false,
  "ignoreQueryParameters": false,
  "limit": 10000,
  "allowBackwardLinks": false,
  "crawlEntireDomain": false,
  "allowExternalLinks": false,
  "allowSubdomains": false,
  "delay": 123,
  "maxConcurrency": 123,
  "webhook": {
    "url": "<string>",
    "headers": {},
    "metadata": {},
    "events": [
      "completed"
    ]
  },
  "scrapeOptions": {
    "onlyMainContent": true,
    "includeTags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "excludeTags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "maxAge": 0,
    "headers": {},
    "waitFor": 0,
    "mobile": false,
    "skipTlsVerification": false,
    "timeout": 30000,
    "parsePDF": true,
    "jsonOptions": {
      "schema": {},
      "systemPrompt": "<string>",
      "prompt": "<string>"
    },
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "wait",
        "milliseconds": 2,
        "selector": "#my-element"
      }
    ],
    "location": {
      "country": "US",
      "languages": [
        "en-US"
      ]
    },
    "removeBase64Images": true,
    "blockAds": true,
    "proxy": "basic",
    "storeInCache": true,
    "formats": [
      "markdown"
    ],
    "changeTrackingOptions": {
      "modes": [
        "git-diff"
      ],
      "schema": {},
      "prompt": "<string>",
      "tag": null
    }
  },
  "zeroDataRetention": false
}'
{
  "success": true,
  "id": "<string>",
  "url": "<string>"
}
Remarque : une version v2 de cette API est désormais disponible, avec des fonctionnalités et des performances améliorées.

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json
​
url
string<uri>
required

The base URL to start crawling from

​
excludePaths
string[]

URL pathname regex patterns that exclude matching URLs from the crawl. For example, if you set "excludePaths": ["blog/.*"] for the base URL firecrawl.dev, any results matching that pattern will be excluded, such as https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/firecrawl-launch-week-1-recap.

​
includePaths
string[]

URL pathname regex patterns that include matching URLs in the crawl. Only the paths that match the specified patterns will be included in the response. For example, if you set "includePaths": ["blog/.*"] for the base URL firecrawl.dev, only results matching that pattern will be included, such as https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/firecrawl-launch-week-1-recap.

​
maxDepth
integer
default:10

Maximum absolute depth to crawl from the base of the entered URL. Basically, the max number of slashes the pathname of a scraped URL may contain.

​
maxDiscoveryDepth
integer

Maximum depth to crawl based on discovery order. The root site and sitemapped pages has a discovery depth of 0. For example, if you set it to 1, and you set ignoreSitemap, you will only crawl the entered URL and all URLs that are linked on that page.

​
ignoreSitemap
boolean
default:false

Ignore the website sitemap when crawling

​
ignoreQueryParameters
boolean
default:false

Do not re-scrape the same path with different (or none) query parameters

​
limit
integer
default:10000

Maximum number of pages to crawl. Default limit is 10000.

​
allowBackwardLinks
boolean
default:false
deprecated

⚠️ DEPRECATED: Use 'crawlEntireDomain' instead. Allows the crawler to follow internal links to sibling or parent URLs, not just child paths.

​
crawlEntireDomain
boolean
default:false

Allows the crawler to follow internal links to sibling or parent URLs, not just child paths.

false: Only crawls deeper (child) URLs. → e.g. /features/feature-1 → /features/feature-1/tips ✅ → Won't follow /pricing or / ❌

true: Crawls any internal links, including siblings and parents. → e.g. /features/feature-1 → /pricing, /, etc. ✅

Use true for broader internal coverage beyond nested paths.

​
allowExternalLinks
boolean
default:false

Allows the crawler to follow links to external websites.

​
allowSubdomains
boolean
default:false

Allows the crawler to follow links to subdomains of the main domain.

​
delay
number

Delay in seconds between scrapes. This helps respect website rate limits.

​
maxConcurrency
integer

Maximum number of concurrent scrapes. This parameter allows you to set a concurrency limit for this crawl. If not specified, the crawl adheres to your team's concurrency limit.

​
webhook
object

A webhook specification object.

​
scrapeOptions
object
​
zeroDataRetention
boolean
default:false

If true, this will enable zero data retention for this crawl. To enable this feature, please contact help@firecrawl.dev

Response

Successful response

​
success
boolean
​
id
string
​
url
string<uri>