diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ed41b6..e3a1094 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Self-host. To self-host refer to guide [here](https://github.com/mendableai/fire
 ### API Key
 
 To use the API, you need to sign up on [Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.com) and get an API key.
-
+ 
 ### Crawling
 
 Used to crawl a URL and all accessible subpages. This submits a crawl job and returns a job ID to check the status of the crawl.
diff --git a/apps/api/requests.http b/apps/api/requests.http
index ab112e9..7b3df11 100644
--- a/apps/api/requests.http
+++ b/apps/api/requests.http
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ### Crawl Website
-POST http://localhost:3002/v0/crawl HTTP/1.1
-Authorization: Bearer 
+POST http://localhost:3002/v0/scrape HTTP/1.1
+Authorization: Bearer fc-a6a2d63aed2b46a9946d2a7207efed4d
+content-type: application/json
 
 {
     "url":"https://docs.mendable.ai"
diff --git a/apps/api/src/index.ts b/apps/api/src/index.ts
index a039703..7198988 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/index.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { supabase_service } from "./services/supabase";
 import { WebScraperDataProvider } from "./scraper/WebScraper";
 import { billTeam, checkTeamCredits } from "./services/billing/credit_billing";
 import { getRateLimiter, redisClient } from "./services/rate-limiter";
+import { parseApi } from "./lib/parseApi";
 
 const { createBullBoard } = require("@bull-board/api");
 const { BullAdapter } = require("@bull-board/api/bullAdapter");
@@ -71,11 +72,13 @@ async function authenticateUser(req, res, mode?: string): Promise<string> {
   if (token === "this_is_just_a_preview_token" && mode === "scrape") {
     return "preview";
   }
+
+  const normalizedApi = parseApi(token);
   // make sure api key is valid, based on the api_keys table in supabase
   const { data, error } = await supabase_service
     .from("api_keys")
     .select("*")
-    .eq("key", token);
+    .eq("key", normalizedApi);
   if (error || !data || data.length === 0) {
     return res.status(401).json({ error: "Unauthorized: Invalid token" });
   }
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ redisClient.connect();
 export function startServer(port = DEFAULT_PORT) {
   const server = app.listen(Number(port), HOST, () => {
     console.log(`Server listening on port ${port}`);
-    console.log(`For the UI, open http://${HOST}:${port}/admin/queues`);
+    console.log(`For the UI, open http://${HOST}:${port}/admin/${process.env.BULL_AUTH_KEY}/queues`);
     console.log("");
     console.log("1. Make sure Redis is running on port 6379 by default");
     console.log(
@@ -326,7 +329,7 @@ if (require.main === module) {
   startServer();
 }
 
-// Use this as a health check that way we dont destroy the server
+// Use this as a "health check" that way we dont destroy the server
 app.get(`/admin/${process.env.BULL_AUTH_KEY}/queues`, async (req, res) => {
   try {
     const webScraperQueue = getWebScraperQueue();
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/parseApi.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/parseApi.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e1a354
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/parseApi.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+export function parseApi(api: string) {
+  // Handle older versions of the API that don't have the fc- prefix
+  if (!api.startsWith("fc-")) {
+    return api;
+  }
+
+  // remove the fc- prefix
+  // re add all the dashes based on the uuidv4 format
+  // 3d478a29-6e59-403e-85c7-94aba81ffd2a
+  const uuid = api
+    .replace(/^fc-/, "")
+    .replace(/(.{8})(.{4})(.{4})(.{4})(.{12})/, "$1-$2-$3-$4-$5");
+  return uuid;
+}
+
+console.log(parseApi("fc-a6a2d63aed2b46a9946d2a7207efed4d"))
+
+export function uuidToFcUuid(uuid: string) {
+  const uuidWithoutDashes = uuid.replace(/-/g, "");
+  return `fc-${uuidWithoutDashes}`;
+}