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.
This commit updates the Crawl4AI version from v0.2.7765 to v0.2.76. The version number is updated in the README.md file. This change ensures consistency and reflects the correct version of the software.
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.
This commit updates the version number to v0.2.73 and makes corresponding changes in the README.md and Dockerfile.
Docker file install the default mode, this resolve many of installation issues.
Additionally, the installation instructions are updated to include support for different modes. Setup.py doesn't have anymore dependancy on Spacy.
The change log is also updated to reflect these changes.
Supporting websites need with-head browser.
• 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.
The code changes in this commit add the `screenshot` parameter to the `crawl_urls` function in `main.py`. This allows users to specify whether they want to take a screenshot of the page during the crawling process. The default value is `False`.
This commit message follows the established convention of starting with a type (feat for feature) and providing a concise and descriptive summary of the changes made.
