Release prep (#749)

* fix: Update export of URLPatternFilter

* chore: Add dependancy for cchardet in requirements

* docs: Update example for deep crawl in release note for v0.5

* Docs: update the example for memory dispatcher

* docs: updated example for crawl strategies

* Refactor: Removed wrapping in if __name__==main block since this is a markdown file.

* chore: removed cchardet from dependancy list, since unclecode is planning to remove it

* docs: updated the example for proxy rotation to a working example

* feat: Introduced ProxyConfig param

* Add tutorial for deep crawl & update contributor list for bug fixes in feb alpha-1

* chore: update and test new dependancies

* feat:Make PyPDF2 a conditional dependancy

* updated tutorial and release note for v0.5

* docs: update docs for deep crawl, and fix a typo in docker-deployment markdown filename

* refactor: 1. Deprecate markdown_v2 2. Make markdown backward compatible to behave as a string when needed. 3. Fix LlmConfig usage in cli 4. Deprecate markdown_v2 in cli 5. Update AsyncWebCrawler for changes in CrawlResult

* fix: Bug in serialisation of markdown in acache_url

* Refactor: Added deprecation errors for fit_html and fit_markdown directly on markdown. Now access them via markdown

* fix: remove deprecated markdown_v2 from docker

* Refactor: remove deprecated fit_markdown and fit_html from result

* refactor: fix cache retrieval for markdown as a string

* chore: update all docs, examples and tests with deprecation announcements for markdown_v2, fit_html, fit_markdown

crawl4ai/configs/__init__.py

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+from .proxy_config import ProxyConfig
+__all__ = ["ProxyConfig"]

crawl4ai/configs/proxy_config.py

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+import os
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+
+
+class ProxyConfig:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        server: str,
+        username: Optional[str] = None,
+        password: Optional[str] = None,
+        ip: Optional[str] = None,
+    ):
+        """Configuration class for a single proxy.
+        
+        Args:
+            server: Proxy server URL (e.g., "http://127.0.0.1:8080")
+            username: Optional username for proxy authentication
+            password: Optional password for proxy authentication
+            ip: Optional IP address for verification purposes
+        """
+        self.server = server
+        self.username = username
+        self.password = password
+        
+        # Extract IP from server if not explicitly provided
+        self.ip = ip or self._extract_ip_from_server()
+    
+    def _extract_ip_from_server(self) -> Optional[str]:
+        """Extract IP address from server URL."""
+        try:
+            # Simple extraction assuming http://ip:port format
+            if "://" in self.server:
+                parts = self.server.split("://")[1].split(":")
+                return parts[0]
+            else:
+                parts = self.server.split(":")
+                return parts[0]
+        except Exception:
+            return None
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_string(proxy_str: str) -> "ProxyConfig":
+        """Create a ProxyConfig from a string in the format 'ip:port:username:password'."""
+        parts = proxy_str.split(":")
+        if len(parts) == 4:  # ip:port:username:password
+            ip, port, username, password = parts
+            return ProxyConfig(
+                server=f"http://{ip}:{port}",
+                username=username,
+                password=password,
+                ip=ip
+            )
+        elif len(parts) == 2:  # ip:port only
+            ip, port = parts
+            return ProxyConfig(
+                server=f"http://{ip}:{port}",
+                ip=ip
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid proxy string format: {proxy_str}")
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_dict(proxy_dict: Dict) -> "ProxyConfig":
+        """Create a ProxyConfig from a dictionary."""
+        return ProxyConfig(
+            server=proxy_dict.get("server"),
+            username=proxy_dict.get("username"),
+            password=proxy_dict.get("password"),
+            ip=proxy_dict.get("ip")
+        )
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_env(env_var: str = "PROXIES") -> List["ProxyConfig"]:
+        """Load proxies from environment variable.
+        
+        Args:
+            env_var: Name of environment variable containing comma-separated proxy strings
+            
+        Returns:
+            List of ProxyConfig objects
+        """
+        proxies = []
+        try:
+            proxy_list = os.getenv(env_var, "").split(",")
+            for proxy in proxy_list:
+                if not proxy:
+                    continue
+                proxies.append(ProxyConfig.from_string(proxy))
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Error loading proxies from environment: {e}")
+        return proxies
+    
+    def to_dict(self) -> Dict:
+        """Convert to dictionary representation."""
+        return {
+            "server": self.server,
+            "username": self.username,
+            "password": self.password,
+            "ip": self.ip
+        }
+    
+    def clone(self, **kwargs) -> "ProxyConfig":
+        """Create a copy of this configuration with updated values.
+
+        Args:
+            **kwargs: Key-value pairs of configuration options to update
+
+        Returns:
+            ProxyConfig: A new instance with the specified updates
+        """
+        config_dict = self.to_dict()
+        config_dict.update(kwargs)
+        return ProxyConfig.from_dict(config_dict)