Schedule recurring crawls of a site using a Firecrawl monitor with a cron schedule
domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Authenticate with 'Authorization: Bearer fc-...' against https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2.
POST /v2/monitor with a crawl target and a cron/text schedule: {"name":"Docs monitor", "schedule":{"cron":"7-59/15 * * * *","timezone":"UTC"}, "targets":[{"type":"crawl","url":"https://example.com/docs","crawlOptions":{"limit":100}}]}
Set schedule.cron to a 5-field expression (min interval 5 minutes) or schedule.text like 'hourly' or 'every 6 hours'; timezone defaults to UTC.
Use crawlOptions to bound the crawl: limit (max pages), maxDepth, includePaths/excludePaths regex.
Add a webhook url with events ["monitor.page","monitor.check.completed"] to be notified when pages add/remove/change.
Repeated runs reuse the same monitor id; the monitor GET response shows status, nextRunAt, lastRunAt, and lastCheckSummary (totalPages/same/changed/new/removed/error).
Known gotchas
A scheduled/recursive crawl in Firecrawl v2 IS a monitor with a 'crawl' target — there is no separate 'scheduled crawl' endpoint; manage it through the monitors API.
cron minimum interval is 5 minutes; the schedule normalizes text to cron (e.g. 'every 5 minutes' -> '*/5 * * * *').
Each check runs a full crawl against the configured url; keep limit and maxDepth tight to control credit spend.
To stop recurring runs, pause (status 'paused') or delete the monitor — there is no standalone toggle on the crawl target itself.
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