- 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.
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.
