• 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
- Implement smart_wait function in AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy
- Add screenshot support to AsyncCrawlResponse and AsyncWebCrawler
- Improve error handling and timeout management in crawling process
- Fix typo in CrawlResult model (responser_headers -> response_headers)
- Update .gitignore to exclude additional files
- Adjust import path in test_basic_crawling.py
This commit refactors the AsyncCrawlerStrategy class in the async_crawler_strategy.py file to modify the return types of the crawl and crawl_many methods. Instead of returning strings, these methods now return instances of the AsyncCrawlResponse class from the pydantic module. The AsyncCrawlResponse class contains the crawled HTML, response headers, and status code. This change improves the clarity and consistency of the code.
This code change updates the `LLMExtractionStrategy` class to handle schema extraction when the schema is non-empty. Previously, the schema extraction was only triggered when the `extract_type` was set to "schema", regardless of whether a schema was provided. With this update, the schema extraction will only be performed if the `extract_type` is "schema" and a non-empty schema is provided. This ensures that the extraction strategy behaves correctly and avoids unnecessary schema extraction when not needed. Also "numpy" is removed from default installation mode.
Significant improvements in text processing and performance:
- 🚀 **Dependency reduction**: Removed dependency on spaCy model for text chunk labeling in cosine extraction strategy.
- 🤖 **Transformer upgrade**: Implemented text sequence classification using a transformer model for labeling text chunks.
- ⚡ **Performance enhancement**: Improved model loading speed due to removal of spaCy dependency.
- 🔧 **Future-proofing**: Laid groundwork for potential complete removal of spaCy dependency in future versions.
These changes address issue #68 and provide a foundation for faster, more efficient text processing in Crawl4AI.
This commit updates the Dockerfile to install Crawl4AI with the specified options. The `INSTALL_OPTION` build argument is used to determine which additional packages to install. If the option is set to "all", all models will be downloaded. If the option is set to "torch", only torch models will be downloaded. If the option is set to "transformer", only transformer models will be downloaded. If no option is specified, the default installation will be used. This change improves the flexibility and customization of the Crawl4AI installation process.
The code change removes the dot from the image format in the `get_content_of_website_optimized` function. This change ensures consistency in the image format and improves the functionality.
This resolves the following error: `selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114`
Windows users are getting.
Set the `image_size` variable to 0 in the `get_content_of_website_optimized` function to temporarily disable fetching the image file size. This change addresses performance issues and will be improved in a future update.
Update Dockerfile for linuz users
The code change sets the `image_size` variable to 0 in the `get_content_of_website_optimized` function. This change is made to temporarily disable fetching the image file size, which was causing performance issues. The image size will be fetched in a future update to improve the functionality.
The commit fixes a typo in the `chunking_strategy.py` file where `nl.toknize.TextTilingTokenizer()` was corrected to `nl.tokenize.TextTilingTokenizer()`. Additionally, in the `crawler_strategy.py` file, the commit converts the screenshot image to RGB mode before saving it as a JPEG. This ensures consistent image quality and compression.
