What happens if the FireCrawl API goes down?

The skill implements graceful degradation and circuit breakers to 'fail fast,' preventing your application from hanging while providing fallback data or cached responses until the service recovers.

Which libraries are required to use these patterns?

The skill utilizes industry-standard Node.js libraries such as 'opossum' for circuit breakers and 'p-queue' for bulkhead and concurrency management.

What is the FireCrawl Reliability Patterns skill?

It is a specialized Claude Code skill that provides implementation patterns for building resilient and fault-tolerant web scraping integrations using FireCrawl, including circuit breakers and idempotency keys.

How does it prevent duplicate FireCrawl requests?

It includes an idempotency pattern that generates deterministic SHA-256 keys based on operation parameters, ensuring the same request isn't processed multiple times by the backend.

FireCrawl Reliability Patterns

Name: FireCrawl Reliability Patterns
Author: jeremylongshore

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Web Scraping & Data Collection

Implements robust reliability patterns like circuit breakers, idempotency, and graceful degradation for production-grade FireCrawl integrations.

About

This skill equips developers with essential architectural patterns needed to build fault-tolerant web scraping pipelines using FireCrawl. It provides standardized, production-ready implementations for circuit breakers to prevent cascading failures, idempotency keys to ensure request stability, and bulkhead patterns for resource isolation. By integrating these patterns, developers can handle rate limits, transient network issues, and service outages gracefully, ensuring that data collection services remain resilient and manageable through advanced error handling and automated dead letter queues.

Key Features

Bulkhead pattern with prioritized queues for resource isolation
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Circuit breaker implementation using Opossum to prevent cascading failures
Automated Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for managing and retrying failed operations
Multi-tier timeout hierarchy and health check monitoring with degraded states
Deterministic idempotency key generation for request stability

Use Cases

Managing high-volume API requests across different priority levels
Implementing graceful fallbacks and stale data recovery during API outages
Building mission-critical web scraping pipelines requiring high availability

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills firecrawl-reliability-patterns

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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