firecrawl-deploy-integration

# Firecrawl Deploy Integration ## Overview Deploy applications using Firecrawl's web scraping API to production. Covers Vercel serverless, Cloud Run containers, self-hosted Firecrawl via Docker, and webhook endpoint deployment for async crawl results. ## Prerequisites - Firecrawl API key (`FIRECRAWL_API_KEY`) - Application using `@mendable/firecrawl-js` - Platform CLI (vercel, docker, or gcloud) ## Instructions ### Step 1: Configure Platform Secrets ```bash set -euo pipefail # Vercel vercel env add FIRECRAWL_API_KEY production # Cloud Run echo -n "$FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" | gcloud secrets create firecrawl-api-key --data-file=- # Docker # Use --env-file or docker secrets ``` ### Step 2: Vercel Serverless API Route ```typescript // app/api/scrape/route.ts (Next.js App Router) import FirecrawlApp from "@mendable/firecrawl-js"; import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server"; const firecrawl = new FirecrawlApp({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY!, }); export async function POST(req: NextRequest) { const { url, formats = ["markdown"] } = await req.json(); if (!url) { return NextResponse.json({ error: "URL required" }, { status: 400 }); } try { const result = await firecrawl.scrapeUrl(url, { formats, onlyMainContent: true, waitFor: 3000, }); return NextResponse.json({ success: result.success, markdown: result.markdown, title: result.metadata?.title, sourceURL: result.metadata?.sourceURL, }); ...