diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl.ts
index 3948566f..fe9d6afd 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/crawl.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ export async function crawlController(
     createdAt: Date.now(),
   };
 
-  const crawler = crawlToCrawler(id, sc, req.acuc.flags ?? null);
+  const crawler = crawlToCrawler(id, sc, req.acuc?.flags ?? null);
 
   try {
     sc.robots = await crawler.getRobotsTxt(scrapeOptions.skipTlsVerification);
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
index 33e23fa1..67dd3f7c 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ export async function mapController(
         abort: abort.signal,
         mock: req.body.useMock,
         filterByPath: req.body.filterByPath !== false,
-        flags: req.acuc.flags ?? null,
+        flags: req.acuc?.flags ?? null,
       }),
       ...(req.body.timeout !== undefined ? [
         new Promise((resolve, reject) => setTimeout(() => {