Crawl an entire website from a base URL with the Firecrawl v2 /crawl endpoint
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Documented steps
POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl with Header Authorization: Bearer <token> and JSON body {"url":"https://example.com"} — this is the async whole-site crawl (returns immediately, not the page data).
Set scoping so discovery is useful: includePaths/excludePaths accept regex patterns against the pathname, and includeSubdomains/allowExternalLinks (both default false) control whether the crawler leaves the starting host.
Crawl depth is capped with maxDiscoveryDepth (root/sitemap pages are depth 0) and total pages with limit (default 10000).
The response is {success:true, id:<uuid>, url:<statusUrl>} — store the id to poll results later with GET /v2/crawl/{id}.
To get the results out, poll GET /v2/crawl/{id} until status==completed (see the crawl-poll route).
Known gotchas
/v2/crawl is ASYNC: the 200 response contains only an id and url, never page content; you must poll or use a webhook.
crawlEntireDomain defaults to false, which means the crawler only follows CHILD paths (/features/feature-1 gets /features/feature-1/tips but NOT /pricing). Set true for siblings/parents.
sitemap defaults to 'include'; set 'only' to crawl just the sitemap + start URL, or 'skip' to discover purely from HTML.
ignoreRobotsTxt and robotsUserAgent are Enterprise-only — they 4xx/are ignored for normal accounts.
Setting delay (seconds between scrapes) forces maxConcurrency to 1, slowing large crawls dramatically.
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