Firecrawl Security Basics

Overview

Security best practices for Firecrawl API keys, webhook signature verification, and scraped content handling. Firecrawl API keys start with fc- and grant full access to scrape, crawl, map, and extract endpoints — protecting them is critical.

Prerequisites

• Firecrawl API key
• Understanding of environment variables
• Webhook endpoint (if using async crawl callbacks)

Instructions

Step 1: Secure API Key Storage

# .env (NEVER commit to git)
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-your-api-key-here

# .gitignore — add these patterns
echo -e "\n.env\n.env.local\n.env.*.local" >> .gitignore