curl -X DELETE 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/crawl/id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"

# DELETE /crawl/{id} (Firecrawl API)
Base URL: https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Cancel a crawl job

## Critical Gotchas
* The `formats` field controls the output shape and defaults to `["markdown"]`. Omitting it does not return HTML — request `["markdown","html"]` explicitly.
* `/crawl` is asynchronous: it returns a job `id`, and results are collected by polling `/crawl/{id}` until `status` is `completed`.

## cURL
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/crawl/id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the crawl job |

## Response (200 OK)
{"status":"cancelled"}

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DELETE

/crawl/{id}

Firecrawl API

Cancel a crawl job

Base URL: https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 169 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

The formats field controls the output shape and defaults to ["markdown"]. Omitting it does not return HTML — request ["markdown","html"] explicitly.

/crawl is asynchronous: it returns a job id, and results are collected by polling /crawl/{id} until status is completed.

cURL

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/crawl/id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the crawl job

Response 200 OK

{
  "status": "cancelled"
}