Firecrawl: firecrawl is blocked by Cloudflare. The verified fix is Fix: Lesson: treat Cloudflare-blocked targets as a known limitation - retry once, then route around (different engine or source) rather than assuming a bug. Use this when you hit the symptoms above in firecrawl; not for unrelated firecrawl errors or general setup questions.
TL;DR
Fix: Lesson: treat Cloudflare-blocked targets as a known limitation - retry once, then route around (different engine or source) rather than assuming a bug.
The error
Firecrawl is blocked by Cloudflare's free bot protection, both self-hosted and cloud, when scraping protected sites.
Fix
Lesson: treat Cloudflare-blocked targets as a known limitation - retry once, then route around (different engine or source) rather than assuming a bug.
Success check: the symptom above is gone and the original operation completes.
When to use
You hit this exact symptom in firecrawl.
You want the verified fix without digging through the thread.
When not to use
A different error in firecrawl, even a similar-looking one.
General firecrawl setup or credential questions.
Compatibility
Firecrawl (firecrawl/firecrawl)
Variant phrasings
How to fix "firecrawl is blocked by Cloudflare" in firecrawl
Source
https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/issues/495
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