Crawl an entire website with Firecrawl and retrieve all pages
domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 7 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Authenticate with 'Authorization: Bearer fc-...'.
POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/crawl with {"url":"https://example.com"} (url is required).
Control scope: includePaths/excludePaths regex, sitemap (include/skip/only), crawlEntireDomain, allowSubdomains, ignoreQueryParameters, and limit (default 10000, max pages to crawl).
The response returns {"success":true, "id":"<crawl-id>", "url":"..."} — it is asynchronous.
Poll GET /v2/crawl/{id} until status is 'completed' or 'failed'; the response data[] holds per-page markdown/html + metadata.
If data exceeds ~10MB, the response includes a 'next' URL — paginate with it to fetch subsequent chunks until the crawl is complete.
Optionally set a webhook {"url":..., "events":["started","page","completed"]} to receive events instead of polling.
Known gotchas
The crawl is async — GET the job id to get results; do not expect page data in the POST response.
includePaths regex is also checked against the starting URL; if the start URL doesn't match it may return 0 pages.
limit default is 10000 — set a smaller limit to control credits.
maxDiscoveryDepth with sitemap:skip controls how deep link discovery goes.
Data comes back in 10MB chunks via 'next'; keep following it until the crawl completes.
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