# Lockdown Mode

Serve /scrape results exclusively from Firecrawl's existing index with no outbound traffic and zero data retention by default.

- Published: April 30, 2026

Lockdown Mode is a cache-only option for `/scrape` that keeps security-sensitive requests inside Firecrawl. Set `lockdown: true` to serve results exclusively from Firecrawl's index, with zero data retention by default.

![Lockdown Mode](/images/blog/lockdown-mode/lockdown-mode.webp)

### Highlights

* **No outbound request** - Lockdown serves results from Firecrawl's index only and gates every outbound path, including HTTP and robots.txt.
* **Zero data retention by default** - URLs aren't persisted, response data isn't stored, and the scrape job is cleaned up after delivery.
* **One flag, every surface** - `lockdown: true` works the same across the API, every SDK (Python, Node, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, Elixir), the CLI (`--lockdown`), and MCP.

Read the full documentation [here](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/lockdown).

_Canonical HTML: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/lockdown-mode_

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