feat: enhance crawler with overlay removal and improved screenshot capabilities

• Add smart overlay removal system for handling popups and modals
• Improve screenshot functionality with configurable timing controls
• Implement URL normalization and enhanced link processing
• Add custom base directory support for cache storage
• Refine external content filtering and social media domain handling

This commit significantly improves the crawler's ability to handle modern
websites by automatically removing intrusive overlays and providing better
screenshot capabilities. URL handling is now more robust with proper
normalization and duplicate detection. The cache system is more flexible
with customizable base directory support.

Breaking changes: None
Issue numbers: None

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## [v0.3.73] - 2024-10-24
+
+### Added
+- Smart overlay removal system in AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy:
+  - Automatic removal of popups, modals, and cookie notices
+  - Detection and removal of fixed/sticky position elements
+  - Cleaning of empty block elements
+  - Configurable via `remove_overlay_elements` parameter
+- Enhanced screenshot capabilities:
+  - Added `screenshot_wait_for` parameter to control timing
+  - Improved screenshot handling with existing page context
+  - Better error handling with fallback error images
+- New URL normalization utilities:
+  - `normalize_url` function for consistent URL formatting
+  - `is_external_url` function for better link classification
+- Custom base directory support for cache storage:
+  - New `base_directory` parameter in AsyncWebCrawler
+  - Allows specifying alternative locations for `.crawl4ai` folder
+
+### Enhanced
+- Link handling improvements:
+  - Better duplicate link detection
+  - Enhanced internal/external link classification
+  - Improved handling of special URL protocols
+  - Support for anchor links and protocol-relative URLs
+- Configuration refinements:
+  - Streamlined social media domain list
+  - More focused external content filtering
+- LLM extraction strategy:
+  - Added support for separate API base URL via `api_base` parameter
+  - Better handling of base URLs in configuration
+
+### Fixed
+- Screenshot functionality:
+  - Resolved issues with screenshot timing and context
+  - Improved error handling and recovery
+- Link processing:
+  - Fixed URL normalization edge cases
+  - Better handling of invalid URLs
+  - Improved error messages for link processing failures
+
+### Developer Notes
+- The overlay removal system uses advanced JavaScript injection for better compatibility
+- URL normalization handles special cases like mailto:, tel:, and protocol-relative URLs
+- Screenshot system now reuses existing page context for better performance
+- Link processing maintains separate dictionaries for internal and external links to ensure uniqueness
+
 ## [v0.3.72] - 2024-10-22
 
 ### Added