Firecrawl: after I deployed the project locally, he couldn't crawl the webpage and kept waiting. The verified fix is Fix: Collaborator rafaelsideguide merged PR #396 adding command: ['pnpm', 'run', 'worker:production'] to the worker service. Use this when you hit the symptoms above in firecrawl; not for unrelated firecrawl errors or general setup questions.
TL;DR
Fix: Collaborator rafaelsideguide merged PR #396 adding command: ['pnpm', 'run', 'worker:production'] to the worker service.
The error
[Self-Host] After docker-deploying Firecrawl, crawl jobs sit in 'waiting' forever in the UI while /scrape works.
Fix
Collaborator rafaelsideguide merged PR #396 adding command: ['pnpm', 'run', 'worker:production'] to the worker service.
Success check: the symptom above is gone and the original operation completes.
When to use
You hit this exact symptom in firecrawl.
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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 "after I deployed the project locally, he couldn't crawl the webpage and kept waiting" in firecrawl
firecrawl: after I deployed the project locally, he couldn't crawl the webpage and kept waiting
Root cause
Root cause found by contributor kun432: the docker-compose worker service was not running the worker production command, so no worker consumed crawl jobs.
Source
https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/issues/340
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