• 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
- Add support for extracting Base64 encoded images
- Improve image format detection to include Base64 images
- Enhance compatibility with locally saved HTML files using Base64 image encoding
- Update version number to 0.3.71
- Add sleep_on_close option to AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy
- Enhance context creation with additional options
- Improve error message formatting and visibility
- Update quickstart documentation
- Implement playwright_stealth for better bot detection avoidance
- Add user simulation and navigator override options
- Improve iframe processing and browser selection
- Enhance error reporting and debugging capabilities
- Optimize image processing and parallel crawling
- Add new example for user simulation feature
- Added support for including links in Markdown content, by definin g a new flag `include_links_on_markdown` in `crawl` method.
- Add browser type selection (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)
- Implement iframe content extraction
- Improve image processing and dimension updates
- Add custom headers support in AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy
- Enhance delayed content retrieval with new parameter
- Optimize HTML sanitization and Markdown conversion
- Update examples in quickstart_async.py for new features
- Add before_retrieve_html hook and delay_before_return_html option
- Implement flexible page_timeout for smart_wait function
- Support extra_args and custom headers in LLM extraction
- Allow arbitrary kwargs in AsyncWebCrawler initialization
- Improve perform_completion_with_backoff for custom API calls
- Update examples with new features and diverse LLM providers
