# Crawl `POST /crawl` > Note: A new [v2 version of this API](/api-reference/endpoint/crawl-post) is now available with improved features and performance. ## OpenAPI ````yaml api-reference/v1-openapi.json post /crawl openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Firecrawl API version: v1 description: API for interacting with Firecrawl services to perform web scraping and crawling tasks. contact: name: Firecrawl Support url: https://firecrawl.dev/support email: support@firecrawl.dev servers: - url: https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1 security: - bearerAuth: [] paths: /crawl: post: summary: Crawl multiple URLs based on options operationId: crawlUrls tags: - Crawling security: - bearerAuth: [] requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: url: type: string format: uri description: The base URL to start crawling from excludePaths: type: array items: type: string description: 'URL pathname regex patterns that exclude matching URLs from the crawl. For example, if you set "excludePaths": ["blog/.*"] for the base URL firecrawl.dev, any results matching that pattern will be excluded, such as https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/firecrawl-launch-week-1-recap.' includePaths: type: array items: type: string description: 'URL pathname regex patterns that include matching URLs in the crawl. Only the paths that match the specified patterns will be included in the response. For example, if you set "includePaths": ["blog/.*"] for the base URL firecrawl.dev, only results matching that pattern will be included, such as https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/firecrawl-launch-week-1-recap.' regexOnFullURL: type: boolean description: When true, includePaths and excludePaths regex patterns are matched against the full URL (including query parameters) instead of just the URL pathname. Useful when you need to filter URLs based on query strings. default: false maxDepth: type: integer description: Maximum absolute depth to crawl from the base of the entered URL. Basically, the max number of slashes the pathname of a scraped URL may contain. default: 10 maxDiscoveryDepth: type: integer description: Maximum depth to crawl based on discovery order. The root site and sitemapped pages has a discovery depth of 0. For example, if you set it to 1, and you set ignoreSitemap, you will only crawl the entered URL and all URLs that are linked on that page. ignoreSitemap: type: boolean description: Ignore the website sitemap when crawling default: false ignoreQueryParameters: type: boolean description: Do not re-scrape the same path with different (or none) query parameters default: false limit: type: integer description: Maximum number of pages to crawl. Default limit is 10000. default: 10000 allowBackwardLinks: type: boolean description: "⚠️ DEPRECATED: Use 'crawlEntireDomain' instead. Allows the crawler to follow internal links to sibling or parent URLs, not just child paths." default: false deprecated: true crawlEntireDomain: type: boolean description: >- Allows the crawler to follow internal links to sibling or parent URLs, not just child paths. false: Only crawls deeper (child) URLs. → e.g. /features/feature-1 → /features/feature-1/tips ✅ → Won't follow /pricing or / ❌ true: Crawls any internal links, including siblings and parents. → e.g. /features/feature-1 → /pricing, /, etc. ✅ Use true for broader internal coverage beyond nested paths. default: false allowExternalLinks: type: boolean description: Allows the crawler to follow links to external websites. default: false allowSubdomains: type: boolean description: Allows the crawler to follow links to subdomains of the main domain. default: false delay: type: number description: Delay in seconds between scrapes. This helps respect website rate limits. maxConcurrency: type: integer description: Maximum number of concurrent scrapes. This parameter allows you to set a concurrency limit for this crawl. If not specified, the crawl adheres to your team's concurrency limit. webhook: type: object description: A webhook specification object. properties: url: type: string description: The URL to send the webhook to. This will trigger for crawl started (crawl.started), every page crawled (crawl.page) and when the crawl is completed (crawl.completed or crawl.failed). The response will be the same as the `/scrape` endpoint. headers: type: object description: Headers to send to the webhook URL. additionalProperties: type: string metadata: type: object description: Custom metadata that will be included in all webhook payloads for this crawl additionalProperties: true events: type: array description: "Type of events that should be sent to the webhook URL. (default: all)" items: type: string enum: - completed - page - failed - started required: - url scrapeOptions: $ref: "#/components/schemas/ScrapeOptions" zeroDataRetention: type: boolean default: false description: If true, this will enable zero data retention for this crawl. To enable this feature, please contact help@firecrawl.dev required: - url responses: "200": description: Successful response content: application/json: schema: $ref: "#/components/schemas/CrawlResponse" "402": description: Payment required content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string example: Payment required to access this resource. "429": description: Too many requests content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string example: Request rate limit exceeded. Please wait and try again later. "500": description: Server error content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string example: An unexpected error occurred on the server. components: securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer schemas: BaseScrapeOptions: type: object properties: onlyMainContent: type: boolean description: Only return the main content of the page excluding headers, navs, footers, etc. default: true includeTags: type: array items: type: string description: Tags to include in the output. excludeTags: type: array items: type: string description: Tags to exclude from the output. maxAge: type: integer description: Returns a cached version of the page if it is younger than this age in milliseconds. If a cached version of the page is older than this value, the page will be scraped. If you do not need extremely fresh data, enabling this can speed up your scrapes by 500%. Defaults to 0, which disables caching. default: 0 headers: type: object description: Headers to send with the request. Can be used to send cookies, user-agent, etc. waitFor: type: integer description: Specify a delay in milliseconds before fetching the content, allowing the page sufficient time to load. default: 0 mobile: type: boolean description: Set to true if you want to emulate scraping from a mobile device. Useful for testing responsive pages and taking mobile screenshots. default: false skipTlsVerification: type: boolean description: Skip TLS certificate verification when making requests default: false timeout: type: integer description: Timeout in milliseconds for the request default: 30000 parsePDF: type: boolean description: Controls how PDF files are processed during scraping. When true, the PDF content is extracted and converted to markdown format, with billing based on the number of pages (1 credit per page). When false, the PDF file is returned in base64 encoding with a flat rate of 1 credit total. default: true jsonOptions: type: object description: JSON options object properties: schema: type: object description: The schema to use for the extraction (Optional). Must conform to [JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/). systemPrompt: type: string description: The system prompt to use for the extraction (Optional) prompt: type: string description: The prompt to use for the extraction without a schema (Optional) checkPromptInjection: type: boolean description: When enabled, scans the scraped page content for prompt injection attempts before running the extraction. If an injection is detected, the request fails with a 403 and error code SCRAPE_PROMPT_INJECTION_DETECTED. Adds 4 credits when the check runs. Defaults to false. default: false actions: type: array description: Actions to perform on the page before grabbing the content items: oneOf: - type: object title: Wait properties: type: type: string enum: - wait description: Wait for a specified amount of milliseconds milliseconds: type: integer minimum: 1 description: Number of milliseconds to wait selector: type: string description: Query selector to find the element by example: "#my-element" required: - type - type: object title: Screenshot properties: type: type: string enum: - screenshot description: Take a screenshot. The links will be in the response's `actions.screenshots` array. fullPage: type: boolean description: Whether to capture a full-page screenshot or limit to the current viewport. default: false quality: type: integer description: The quality of the screenshot, from 1 to 100. 100 is the highest quality. required: - type - type: object title: Click properties: type: type: string enum: - click description: Click on an element selector: type: string description: Query selector to find the element by example: "#load-more-button" all: type: boolean description: Clicks all elements matched by the selector, not just the first one. Does not throw an error if no elements match the selector. default: false required: - type - selector - type: object title: Write text properties: type: type: string enum: - write description: "Write text into an input field, text area, or contenteditable element. Note: You must first focus the element using a 'click' action before writing. The text will be typed character by character to simulate keyboard input." text: type: string description: Text to type example: Hello, world! required: - type - text - type: object title: Press a key description: Press a key on the page. See https://asawicki.info/nosense/doc/devices/keyboard/key_codes.html for key codes. properties: type: type: string enum: - press description: Press a key on the page key: type: string description: Key to press example: Enter required: - type - key - type: object title: Scroll properties: type: type: string enum: - scroll description: Scroll the page or a specific element direction: type: string enum: - up - down description: Direction to scroll default: down selector: type: string description: Query selector for the element to scroll example: "#my-element" required: - type - type: object title: Scrape properties: type: type: string enum: - scrape description: Scrape the current page content, returns the url and the html. required: - type - type: object title: Execute JavaScript properties: type: type: string enum: - executeJavascript description: Execute JavaScript code on the page script: type: string description: JavaScript code to execute example: document.querySelector('.button').click(); required: - type - script - type: object title: Generate PDF properties: type: type: string enum: - pdf description: Generate a PDF of the current page. The PDF will be returned in the `actions.pdfs` array of the response. format: type: string enum: - A0 - A1 - A2 - A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - Letter - Legal - Tabloid - Ledger description: The page size of the resulting PDF default: Letter landscape: type: boolean description: Whether to generate the PDF in landscape orientation default: false scale: type: number description: The scale multiplier of the resulting PDF default: 1 required: - type location: type: object description: Location settings for the request. When specified, this will use an appropriate proxy if available and emulate the corresponding language and timezone settings. Defaults to 'US' if not specified. properties: country: type: string description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., 'US', 'AU', 'DE', 'JP') pattern: ^[A-Z]{2}$ default: US languages: type: array description: Preferred languages and locales for the request in order of priority. Defaults to the language of the specified location. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language items: type: string example: en-US removeBase64Images: type: boolean description: Removes all base 64 images from the output, which may be overwhelmingly long. The image's alt text remains in the output, but the URL is replaced with a placeholder. default: true blockAds: type: boolean description: Enables ad-blocking and cookie popup blocking. default: true proxy: type: string enum: - basic - enhanced - auto description: >- Specifies the type of proxy to use. - **basic**: Proxies for scraping sites with none to basic anti-bot solutions. Fast and usually works. - **enhanced**: Enhanced proxies for scraping sites with advanced anti-bot solutions. Slower, but more reliable on certain sites. Billed at the same credit cost as basic. - **auto**: Firecrawl will automatically retry scraping with enhanced proxies if the basic proxy fails. Enhanced proxies carry no credit surcharge, so either way only the regular cost is billed. If you do not specify a proxy, Firecrawl will default to basic. storeInCache: type: boolean description: If true, the page will be stored in the Firecrawl index and cache. Setting this to false is useful if your scraping activity may have data protection concerns. Using some parameters associated with sensitive scraping (actions, headers) will force this parameter to be false. default: true threatProtection: $ref: "#/components/schemas/ThreatProtectionOverride" ScrapeOptions: allOf: - $ref: "#/components/schemas/BaseScrapeOptions" - type: object properties: formats: type: array items: type: string enum: - markdown - html - rawHtml - links - screenshot - screenshot@fullPage - json - changeTracking description: Formats to include in the output. default: - markdown changeTrackingOptions: type: object description: Options for change tracking (Beta). Only applicable when 'changeTracking' is included in formats. The 'markdown' format must also be specified when using change tracking. properties: modes: type: array items: type: string enum: - git-diff - json description: The mode to use for change tracking. 'git-diff' provides a detailed diff, and 'json' compares extracted JSON data. schema: type: object description: Schema for JSON extraction when using 'json' mode. Defines the structure of data to extract and compare. Must conform to [JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/). prompt: type: string description: Prompt to use for change tracking when using 'json' mode. If not provided, the default prompt will be used. tag: type: string nullable: true default: null description: Tag to use for change tracking. Tags can separate change tracking history into separate "branches", where change tracking with a specific tagwill only compare to scrapes made in the same tag. If not provided, the default tag (null) will be used. CrawlResponse: type: object properties: success: type: boolean id: type: string url: type: string format: uri ThreatProtectionOverride: type: object title: Threat Protection Override description: Per-request [Threat Protection](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/threat-protection) override. Fields you provide replace the corresponding fields of your organization's policy for this request only; omitted fields keep their organization-level values. Requires Threat Protection to be enabled for your team (enterprise feature) — otherwise the request is rejected with a 403. If your organization has disabled request overrides, any request that includes this object is rejected with a 403. If Threat Protection is enforced for your team, `mode` may not be set to `off`. properties: mode: type: string enum: - off - normal description: URL scanning mode for this request. `normal` checks URLs against Google Web Risk (+2 credits per URL scanned). riskScoreThreshold: type: integer minimum: 0 maximum: 100 description: Normalized risk score (0–100) at or above which a classifier verdict blocks the URL. Lower is stricter. example: 75 blacklist: type: array maxItems: 1000 items: type: string description: Domains to always block, as plain domains (`example.com`) or wildcard globs (`*.example.com`). No protocol, path, or port. whitelist: type: array maxItems: 1000 items: type: string description: Domains to always allow, as plain domains or wildcard globs. Wins over every other rule. blockedTlds: type: array maxItems: 1000 items: type: string description: Top-level domains to block outright, lowercase without the leading dot (e.g. `zip`). failurePolicy: type: string enum: - open - closed description: "What to do when the classifier can't be reached: `closed` blocks the request, `open` allows it." ````