Fireflies.ai Performance Tuning

Overview

Optimize Fireflies.ai GraphQL API performance. The biggest wins: request only needed fields (transcripts with sentences can be very large), cache immutable transcripts, and batch operations within rate limits.

Prerequisites

• FIREFLIES_API_KEY configured
• Understanding of your access pattern (list vs detail, frequency)
• Optional: Redis or LRU cache library

Instructions

Step 1: Field Selection -- The Biggest Win

Transcript responses with sentences can be enormous. Always request the minimum fields needed.

// BAD: Fetching everything when you only need titles
const HEAVY = `{ transcripts(limit: 50) {
  id title date duration sentences { text speaker_name start_time end_time }
  summary { overview action_items keywords outline bullet_gist }