GET
/deep-research/{id}
Firecrawl APIGet the status and results of a deep research operation
- 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
→ 177 tokens · Vary: Accept
→ 177 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 GET 'https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/deep-research/id' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY"Get a free Firecrawl API key → sponsored
Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the research job |
Response 200 OK
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"finalAnalysis": "string",
"json": {},
"activities": [
{
"type": "string",
"status": "string",
"message": "string",
"timestamp": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
"depth": 0
}
],
"sources": [
{
"url": "string",
"title": "string",
"description": "string",
"favicon": "string"
}
],
"status": "processing",
"error": "string",
"expiresAt": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
"currentDepth": 0,
"maxDepth": 0,
"totalUrls": 0
}
}