---
title: "Start Async Crawl"
method: POST
path: "/api/crawl/start"
tags: ["crawl"]
---

# Start Async Crawl

`POST /api/crawl/start`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://bizclaw.xyz` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://bizclaw.xyz/api/crawl/start`
- Auth: OAuth 2 (password, token URL `/api/auth/login`)

Start crawl in background and return immediately.
Used by magic-link flow after email verification.

## Request body

- CrawlRequest
  - `url` string, uri, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/bizclaw/apis/bizclaw-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/bizclaw/apis/bizclaw-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/bizclaw/apis/bizclaw-api/revisions/565357676bfe?raw)