Major improvements in functionality, performance, and cross-platform compatibility! 🚀
- 🐳 **Docker enhancements**: Significantly improved Dockerfile for easy installation on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
- 🌐 **Official Docker Hub image**: Launched our first official image on Docker Hub for streamlined deployment (unclecode/crawl4ai).
- 🔧 **Selenium upgrade**: Removed dependency on ChromeDriver, now using Selenium's built-in capabilities for better compatibility.
- 🖼️ **Image description**: Implemented ability to generate textual descriptions for extracted images from web pages.
- ⚡ **Performance boost**: Various improvements to enhance overall speed and performance.
These changes fix typos in `chunking_strategy.py` and `crawler_strategy.py` to improve code readability. Additionally, the `.test_pads/` directory is removed from the `.gitignore` file to keep the repository clean and organized.
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.
• Refactored `crawler_strategy.py` to handle exceptions and improve error messages
• Improved `get_content_of_website_optimized` function in `utils.py` for better performance
• Updated `utils.py` with latest changes
• Migrated to `ChromeDriverManager` for resolving Chrome driver download issues
- Added six hooks: on_driver_created, before_get_url, after_get_url, before_return_html, on_user_agent_updated.
- Included example usage in quickstart.py.
- Updated README and changelog.