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

> Get all active crawls for the authenticated team

## 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 GET 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/crawl/active' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"

## Response (200 OK)
{"success":true,"crawls":[{}]}

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