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

  1. 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
  2. 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"]}
  3. Your endpoint must be HTTPS and answer 2xx within 10 seconds or the delivery counts as failed
  4. Delivery shape: {"success":bool,"type":"crawl.started"|"crawl.page"|"crawl.completed","id":"<jobId>","data":[...],"metadata":{...}}
  5. 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.)
  6. 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)
  7. Reject on signature mismatch BEFORE parsing/processing the payload

Known gotchas

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