Cancel a running Firecrawl crawl and inspect failed or robots-blocked pages (DELETE /v2/crawl/{id}, GET /v2/crawl/{id}/errors)

domain: firecrawl.dev · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. AUTH: Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR_API_KEY on both calls
  2. Cancel: DELETE https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl/{id} — success returns {"status":"cancelled"}
  3. A 404 ({"error":"Crawl job not found."}) means a wrong id or an already-expired job
  4. Inspect failures: GET https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl/{id}/errors (works for running, cancelled, or completed crawls)
  5. Errors response: {"errors":[{"id","timestamp","url","error"}],"robotsBlocked":["https://example.com/private"]}
  6. Use robotsBlocked to distinguish robots.txt skips from genuine scrape failures in errors[]

Known gotchas

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