- 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 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
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.
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.
