From fbefac75ebd93f70a229a6a4d378204cc8333643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vimzh <vimzh.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 22:16:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(onboarding): fail fast when EXA_API_KEY is missing (#995)

---
 .../app/api/onboarding/extract-content/route.ts  | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/web/app/api/onboarding/extract-content/route.ts b/apps/web/app/api/onboarding/extract-content/route.ts
index 6cdb40d5..9322f324 100644
--- a/apps/web/app/api/onboarding/extract-content/route.ts
+++ b/apps/web/app/api/onboarding/extract-content/route.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,22 @@ interface ExaApiResponse {
 	results: ExaContentResult[]
 }
 
+const exaApiKey = process.env.EXA_API_KEY
+if (!exaApiKey) {
+	console.error(
+		"EXA_API_KEY is not configured; /api/onboarding/extract-content will return 503",
+	)
+}
+
 export async function POST(request: Request) {
 	try {
+		if (!exaApiKey) {
+			return Response.json(
+				{ error: "Content extraction is unavailable" },
+				{ status: 503 },
+			)
+		}
+
 		const { urls } = await request.json()
 
 		if (!Array.isArray(urls) || urls.length === 0) {
@@ -30,7 +44,7 @@ export async function POST(request: Request) {
 		const response = await fetch("https://api.exa.ai/contents", {
 			method: "POST",
 			headers: {
-				"x-api-key": process.env.EXA_API_KEY ?? "",
+				"x-api-key": exaApiKey,
 				"Content-Type": "application/json",
 			},
 			body: JSON.stringify({