Safe Mode

Keep your organization in Firecrawl’s strictest compliance posture. Firecrawl honors each site’s rules, never scrapes behind a login, and identifies itself as automated. Enforced server-side.

Safe Mode keeps your organization in Firecrawl’s strictest compliance posture. Turn it on when your legal, security, or compliance policy requires a conservative scraping posture on every request. It applies to every API key and every endpoint in your organization.

Safe Mode is an enterprise feature and is gated per organization. Firecrawl turns it on for your organization. Contact your Firecrawl account team or [e-mail] to have it enabled.

What changes

• Basic proxies only. Firecrawl does not use enhanced or mobile proxies.
• No logins. Firecrawl never scrapes behind a login and never uses credentials.
• robots.txt is honored on every request.
• Site rules are respected. Firecrawl does not work around a site’s restrictions, and the browser identifies itself as automated.
• Optional cache-only mode. Firecrawl serves only cached pages and never contacts the target website.

Configuring Safe Mode

Team admins turn off individual controls and manage an allowlist of domains in Enterprise Controls → Safe Mode in the dashboard.

A request that Safe Mode does not allow returns a 403 with the error code SAFE_MODE_BLOCKED.