Prepare the v0.4.3 beta release with major feature additions and improvements:
- Add JsonXPathExtractionStrategy and LLMContentFilter to exports
- Update version to 0.4.3b1
- Improve documentation for dispatchers and markdown generation
- Update development status to Beta
- Reorganize changelog format
BREAKING CHANGE: Memory threshold in MemoryAdaptiveDispatcher increased to 90% and SemaphoreDispatcher parameter renamed to max_session_permit
Implement more robust browser executable path handling using playwright's built-in browser management. This change:
- Adds async browser path resolution
- Implements path caching in the home folder
- Removes hardcoded browser paths
- Adds httpx dependency
- Removes obsolete test result files
This change makes the browser path resolution more reliable across different platforms and environments.
Adds a new ScrapingMode enum to allow switching between BeautifulSoup and LXML parsing.
LXML mode offers 10-20x better performance for large HTML documents.
Key changes:
- Added ScrapingMode enum with BEAUTIFULSOUP and LXML options
- Implemented LXMLWebScrapingStrategy class
- Added LXML-based metadata extraction
- Updated documentation with scraping mode usage and performance considerations
- Added cssselect dependency
BREAKING CHANGE: None
Reorganize documentation into core/advanced/extraction sections for better navigation.
Update terminal theme styles and add rich library for better CLI output.
Remove redundant tutorial files and consolidate content into core sections.
Add personal story to index page for project context.
BREAKING CHANGE: Documentation structure has been significantly reorganized
- Replace explicit package listing with setuptools.find
- Include all crawl4ai.* packages automatically
- Use `packages = {find = {where = ["."], include = ["crawl4ai*"]}}` syntax
- Bump version to 0.4.243
This change simplifies package maintenance by automatically discovering
all subpackages under crawl4ai namespace instead of listing them manually.
- Add --force flag to Playwright browser installation
- Add doctor command to test crawling functionality
- Install Chrome and Chromium browsers explicitly
- Add crawl4ai-doctor entry point in pyproject.toml
- Implement simple health check focused on crawling test
- Add pyproject.toml for PEP 517 build system support
- Configure dependencies, scripts, and metadata in pyproject.toml
- Set Python requirement to >=3.9 and add support up to 3.13
- Keep setup.py for backwards compatibility
- Move package dependencies and entry points to pyproject.toml
