Scope a Firecrawl v2 crawl with includePaths/excludePaths and discovery controls
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Documented steps
On POST /v2/crawl pass includePaths and excludePaths as arrays of regex patterns matched against the pathname (e.g. excludePaths:["/blog/.*"] skips blog posts).
Use regexOnFullURL:true to match against the full URL INCLUDING query params instead of just the pathname.
Cap depth with maxDiscoveryDepth (0 = only the start URL + root sitemap-level pages) and set sitemap control to 'skip'/'include'/'only'.
Reuse the same page under different query params by setting ignoreQueryParameters:false (default false, so it re-scrapes by default).
Expand beyond the starting path with crawlEntireDomain:true, allowSubdomains:true, or follow offsite links with allowExternalLinks:true.
Known gotchas
The STARTING URL is also checked against includePaths — if it doesn't match your include pattern, the crawl may return 0 pages.
ignoreQueryParameters defaults to false, meaning distinct query-string URLs get re-scraped (can inflate page counts/credits).
allowExternalLinks/allowSubdomains default to false; the entire-domain traversal also defaults to child-paths only.
Official docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/crawl
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