## [v0.2.74] - 2024-07-08

A slew of exciting updates to improve the crawler's stability and robustness! 🎉

- 💻 **UTF encoding fix**: Resolved the Windows \"charmap\" error by adding UTF encoding.
- 🛡️ **Error handling**: Implemented MaxRetryError exception handling in LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy.
- 🧹 **Input sanitization**: Improved input sanitization and handled encoding issues in LLMExtractionStrategy.
- 🚮 **Database cleanup**: Removed existing database file and initialized a new one.

setup.py

@@ -5,10 +5,15 @@ import subprocess
 from setuptools.command.install import install
 
 # Create the .crawl4ai folder in the user's home directory if it doesn't exist
+# If the folder already exists, remove the cache folder
 crawl4ai_folder = os.path.join(Path.home(), ".crawl4ai")
+if os.path.exists(f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache"):
+    subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache"])
 os.makedirs(crawl4ai_folder, exist_ok=True)
 os.makedirs(f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache", exist_ok=True)
 
+
+
 # Read the requirements from requirements.txt
 with open("requirements.txt") as f:
     requirements = f.read().splitlines()
@@ -20,7 +25,7 @@ transformer_requirements = [req for req in requirements if req.startswith(("tran
 
 setup(
     name="Crawl4AI",
-    version="0.2.73",
+    version="0.2.74",
     description="🔥🕷️ Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scrapper",
     long_description=open("README.md", encoding="utf-8").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",