diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl-status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl-status.ts
index 694b3dca..48a4a177 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl-status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl-status.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ import {
   getDoneJobsOrdered,
   getDoneJobsOrderedLength,
   getThrottledJobs,
-  isCrawlFinished,
-  isCrawlFinishedLocked,
+  isCrawlKickoffFinished,
 } from "../../lib/crawl-redis";
 import { getScrapeQueue } from "../../services/queue-service";
 import {
@@ -117,8 +116,7 @@ export async function crawlStatusController(
   const status: Exclude<CrawlStatusResponse, ErrorResponse>["status"] =
     sc.cancelled
       ? "cancelled"
-      : validJobStatuses.every((x) => x[1] === "completed") &&
-          (await isCrawlFinishedLocked(req.params.jobId) || await isCrawlFinished(req.params.jobId))
+      : validJobStatuses.every((x) => x[1] === "completed") && (sc.crawlerOptions ? await isCrawlKickoffFinished(req.params.jobId) : true)
         ? "completed"
         : "scraping";
 
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
index add189ba..0e7e643a 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ export async function isCrawlFinished(id: string) {
   );
 }
 
+export async function isCrawlKickoffFinished(id: string) {
+  return await redisConnection.get("crawl:" + id + ":kickoff:finish") !== null
+}
+
 export async function isCrawlFinishedLocked(id: string) {
   return await redisConnection.exists("crawl:" + id + ":finish");
 }