Receive Firecrawl crawl/batch results via webhooks instead of polling, with HMAC signature verification
domain: firecrawl.dev · 7 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
AUTH: Webhook deliveries are authenticated by the X-Firecrawl-Signature: sha256=<hex> header verified against your per-account webhook secret (dashboard Advanced settings) — not the API bearer token
In the POST /v2/crawl (or batch scrape) body add: "webhook": {"url":"https://your-domain.com/webhook","headers":{...},"metadata":{"job":"nightly-sync"},"events":["started","page","completed"]}
Your endpoint must be HTTPS and answer 2xx within 10 seconds or the delivery counts as failed
crawl.page fires once per scraped page; crawl.completed signals the job is done; extract/agent jobs use analogous event families (extract.started/completed/failed etc.)
Verify authenticity: compute HMAC-SHA256 over the RAW request body with your webhook secret and timing-safe-compare against X-Firecrawl-Signature (crypto.timingSafeEqual / hmac.compare_digest)
Reject on signature mismatch BEFORE parsing/processing the payload
Known gotchas
Failed deliveries retry at 1 min, 5 min, then 15 min and are abandoned after 3 failures — make your handler idempotent
Omitting 'events' subscribes you to ALL event types — large crawls then flood you with crawl.page calls; list events explicitly
HMAC must be computed over the raw body bytes; re-serialized JSON will not match
webhook.metadata is echoed back on every event — use it to correlate deliveries to your internal job ids
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