Crawl an entire website asynchronously with Firecrawl v2 and collect per-page results by polling
domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 5 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-cloud-0722
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Documented steps
POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl with header Authorization: Bearer <api key>
Body: required 'url'; scope controls include limit (max pages), maxDepth, includePaths and excludePaths (path filters), and scrapeOptions (a nested object of /v2/scrape options such as formats and onlyMainContent applied to every crawled page)
The POST returns immediately with a job 'id' — the crawl runs asynchronously; it does not block
Poll GET https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl/{id} with the same auth header until the job reports a terminal status; the response carries the crawl status and a data array of per-page results
Consult https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/crawl for the current status values and polling-response fields before hardcoding checks
Known gotchas
Always set 'limit' explicitly — an unbounded crawl of a large site consumes credits for every page fetched
Path filters are named includePaths / excludePaths (NOT includePatterns/excludePatterns — that spelling is a common agent error and is ignored/rejected)
scrapeOptions is where per-page format selection lives; forgetting it means you get default output for every page
Large crawl results can be paginated in the polling response — follow the docs' pagination mechanism instead of assuming one GET returns everything
Download results promptly after completion rather than treating the job endpoint as long-term storage
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