Firecrawl Production Checklist

Overview

Pre-deployment validation checklist for applications using Firecrawl's scrape, crawl, map, and extract APIs. Covers credential management, crawl safety limits, error handling, monitoring, and rollback.

Prerequisites

• Staging environment tested and passing
• Production API key from firecrawl.dev/app
• Monitoring infrastructure ready

Pre-Deployment Checklist

Credentials & Security

• Production FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in secure vault (not in code or .env)
• Key starts with fc- and is scoped to production
• Different API keys for dev/staging/production
• .env files in .gitignore
• Webhook secrets stored securely
• Git history scanned for leaked keys