* fix(docker-api): migrate to modern datetime library API
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Ferdman <emmanuelferdman@gmail.com>
* Fix examples in README.md
* feat(docker): add user-provided hooks support to Docker API
Implements comprehensive hooks functionality allowing users to provide custom Python
functions as strings that execute at specific points in the crawling pipeline.
Key Features:
- Support for all 8 crawl4ai hook points:
• on_browser_created: Initialize browser settings
• on_page_context_created: Configure page context
• before_goto: Pre-navigation setup
• after_goto: Post-navigation processing
• on_user_agent_updated: User agent modification handling
• on_execution_started: Crawl execution initialization
• before_retrieve_html: Pre-extraction processing
• before_return_html: Final HTML processing
Implementation Details:
- Created UserHookManager for validation, compilation, and safe execution
- Added IsolatedHookWrapper for error isolation and timeout protection
- AST-based validation ensures code structure correctness
- Sandboxed execution with restricted builtins for security
- Configurable timeout (1-120 seconds) prevents infinite loops
- Comprehensive error handling ensures hooks don't crash main process
- Execution tracking with detailed statistics and logging
API Changes:
- Added HookConfig schema with code and timeout fields
- Extended CrawlRequest with optional hooks parameter
- Added /hooks/info endpoint for hook discovery
- Updated /crawl and /crawl/stream endpoints to support hooks
Safety Features:
- Malformed hooks return clear validation errors
- Hook errors are isolated and reported without stopping crawl
- Execution statistics track success/failure/timeout rates
- All hook results are JSON-serializable
Testing:
- Comprehensive test suite covering all 8 hooks
- Error handling and timeout scenarios validated
- Authentication, performance, and content extraction examples
- 100% success rate in production testing
Documentation:
- Added extensive hooks section to docker-deployment.md
- Security warnings about user-provided code risks
- Real-world examples using httpbin.org, GitHub, BBC
- Best practices and troubleshooting guide
ref #1377
* fix(deep-crawl): BestFirst priority inversion; remove pre-scoring truncation. ref #1253
Use negative scores in PQ to visit high-score URLs first and drop link cap prior to scoring; add test for ordering.
* docs: Update URL seeding examples to use proper async context managers
- Wrap all AsyncUrlSeeder usage with async context managers
- Update URL seeding adventure example to use "sitemap+cc" source, focus on course posts, and add stream=True parameter to fix runtime error
* fix(crawler): Removed the incorrect reference in browser_config variable #1310
* docs: update Docker instructions to use the latest release tag
* fix(docker): Fix LLM API key handling for multi-provider support
Previously, the system incorrectly used OPENAI_API_KEY for all LLM providers
due to a hardcoded api_key_env fallback in config.yml. This caused authentication
errors when using non-OpenAI providers like Gemini.
Changes:
- Remove api_key_env from config.yml to let litellm handle provider-specific env vars
- Simplify get_llm_api_key() to return None, allowing litellm to auto-detect keys
- Update validate_llm_provider() to trust litellm's built-in key detection
- Update documentation to reflect the new automatic key handling
The fix leverages litellm's existing capability to automatically find the correct
environment variable for each provider (OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_TOKEN, etc.)
without manual configuration.
ref #1291
* docs: update adaptive crawler docs and cache defaults; remove deprecated examples (#1330)
- Replace BaseStrategy with CrawlStrategy in custom strategy examples (DomainSpecificStrategy, HybridStrategy)
- Remove “Custom Link Scoring” and “Caching Strategy” sections no longer aligned with current library
- Revise memory pruning example to use adaptive.get_relevant_content and index-based retention of top 500 docs
- Correct Quickstart note: default cache mode is CacheMode.BYPASS; instruct enabling with CacheMode.ENABLED
* fix(utils): Improve URL normalization by avoiding quote/unquote to preserve '+' signs. ref #1332
* feat: Add comprehensive website to API example with frontend
This commit adds a complete, web scraping API example that demonstrates how to get structured data from any website and use it like an API using the crawl4ai library with a minimalist frontend interface.
Core Functionality
- AI-powered web scraping with plain English queries
- Dual scraping approaches: Schema-based (faster) and LLM-based (flexible)
- Intelligent schema caching for improved performance
- Custom LLM model support with API key management
- Automatic duplicate request prevention
Modern Frontend Interface
- Minimalist black-and-white design inspired by modern web apps
- Responsive layout with smooth animations and transitions
- Three main pages: Scrape Data, Models Management, API Request History
- Real-time results display with JSON formatting
- Copy-to-clipboard functionality for extracted data
- Toast notifications for user feedback
- Auto-scroll to results when scraping starts
Model Management System
- Web-based model configuration interface
- Support for any LLM provider (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.)
- Simplified configuration requiring only provider and API token
- Add, list, and delete model configurations
- Secure storage of API keys in local JSON files
API Request History
- Automatic saving of all API requests and responses
- Display of request history with URL, query, and cURL commands
- Duplicate prevention (same URL + query combinations)
- Request deletion functionality
- Clean, simplified display focusing on essential information
Technical Implementation
Backend (FastAPI)
- RESTful API with comprehensive endpoints
- Pydantic models for request/response validation
- Async web scraping with crawl4ai library
- Error handling with detailed error messages
- File-based storage for models and request history
Frontend (Vanilla JS/CSS/HTML)
- No framework dependencies - pure HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Modern CSS Grid and Flexbox layouts
- Custom dropdown styling with SVG arrows
- Responsive design for mobile and desktop
- Smooth scrolling and animations
Core Library Integration
- WebScraperAgent class for orchestration
- ModelConfig class for LLM configuration management
- Schema generation and caching system
- LLM extraction strategy support
- Browser configuration with headless mode
* fix(dependencies): add cssselect to project dependencies
Fixes bug reported in issue #1405
[Bug]: Excluded selector (excluded_selector) doesn't work
This commit reintroduces the cssselect library which was removed by PR (https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/pull/1368) and merged via (437395e490).
Integration tested against 0.7.4 Docker container. Reintroducing cssselector package eliminated errors seen in logs and excluded_selector functionality was restored.
Refs: #1405
* fix(docker): resolve filter serialization and JSON encoding errors in deep crawl strategy (ref #1419)
- Fix URLPatternFilter serialization by preventing private __slots__ from being serialized as constructor params
- Add public attributes to URLPatternFilter to store original constructor parameters for proper serialization
- Handle property descriptors in CrawlResult.model_dump() to prevent JSON serialization errors
- Ensure filter chains work correctly with Docker client and REST API
The issue occurred because:
1. Private implementation details (_simple_suffixes, etc.) were being serialized and passed as constructor arguments during deserialization
2. Property descriptors were being included in the serialized output, causing "Object of type property is not JSON serializable" errors
Changes:
- async_configs.py: Comment out __slots__ serialization logic (lines 100-109)
- filters.py: Add patterns, use_glob, reverse to URLPatternFilter __slots__ and store as public attributes
- models.py: Convert property descriptors to strings in model_dump() instead of including them directly
* fix(logger): ensure logger is a Logger instance in crawling strategies. ref #1437
* feat(docker): Add temperature and base_url parameters for LLM configuration. ref #1035
Implement hierarchical configuration for LLM parameters with support for:
- Temperature control (0.0-2.0) to adjust response creativity
- Custom base_url for proxy servers and alternative endpoints
- 4-tier priority: request params > provider env > global env > defaults
Add helper functions in utils.py, update API schemas and handlers,
support environment variables (LLM_TEMPERATURE, OPENAI_TEMPERATURE, etc.),
and provide comprehensive documentation with examples.
* feat(docker): improve docker error handling
- Return comprehensive error messages along with status codes for api internal errors.
- Fix fit_html property serialization issue in both /crawl and /crawl/stream endpoints
- Add sanitization to ensure fit_html is always JSON-serializable (string or None)
- Add comprehensive error handling test suite.
* #1375 : refactor(proxy) Deprecate 'proxy' parameter in BrowserConfig and enhance proxy string parsing
- Updated ProxyConfig.from_string to support multiple proxy formats, including URLs with credentials.
- Deprecated the 'proxy' parameter in BrowserConfig, replacing it with 'proxy_config' for better flexibility.
- Added warnings for deprecated usage and clarified behavior when both parameters are provided.
- Updated documentation and tests to reflect changes in proxy configuration handling.
* Remove deprecated test for 'proxy' parameter in BrowserConfig and update .gitignore to include test_scripts directory.
* feat: add preserve_https_for_internal_links flag to maintain HTTPS during crawling. Ref #1410
Added a new `preserve_https_for_internal_links` configuration flag that preserves the original HTTPS scheme for same-domain links even when the server redirects to HTTP.
* feat: update documentation for preserve_https_for_internal_links. ref #1410
* fix: drop Python 3.9 support and require Python >=3.10.
The library no longer supports Python 3.9 and so it was important to drop all references to python 3.9.
Following changes have been made:
- pyproject.toml: set requires-python to ">=3.10"; remove 3.9 classifier
- setup.py: set python_requires to ">=3.10"; remove 3.9 classifier
- docs: update Python version mentions
- deploy/docker/c4ai-doc-context.md: options -> 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13
* issue #1329 refactor(crawler): move unwanted properties to CrawlerRunConfig class
* fix(auth): fixed Docker JWT authentication. ref #1442
* remove: delete unused yoyo snapshot subproject
* fix: raise error on last attempt failure in perform_completion_with_backoff. ref #989
* Commit without API
* fix: update option labels in request builder for clarity
* fix: allow custom LLM providers for adaptive crawler embedding config. ref: #1291
- Change embedding_llm_config from Dict to Union[LLMConfig, Dict] for type safety
- Add backward-compatible conversion property _embedding_llm_config_dict
- Replace all hardcoded OpenAI embedding configs with configurable options
- Fix LLMConfig object attribute access in query expansion logic
- Add comprehensive example demonstrating multiple provider configurations
- Update documentation with both LLMConfig object and dictionary usage patterns
Users can now specify any LLM provider for query expansion in embedding strategy:
- New: embedding_llm_config=LLMConfig(provider='anthropic/claude-3', api_token='key')
- Old: embedding_llm_config={'provider': 'openai/gpt-4', 'api_token': 'key'} (still works)
* refactor(BrowserConfig): change deprecation warning for 'proxy' parameter to UserWarning
* feat(StealthAdapter): fix stealth features for Playwright integration. ref #1481
* #1505 fix(api): update config handling to only set base config if not provided by user
* fix(docker-deployment): replace console.log with print for metadata extraction
* Release v0.7.5: The Update
- Updated version to 0.7.5
- Added comprehensive demo and release notes
- Updated documentation
* refactor(release): remove memory management section for cleaner documentation. ref #1443
* feat(docs): add brand book and page copy functionality
- Add comprehensive brand book with color system, typography, components
- Add page copy dropdown with markdown copy/view functionality
- Update mkdocs.yml with new assets and branding navigation
- Use terminal-style ASCII icons and condensed menu design
* Update gitignore add local scripts folder
* fix: remove this import as it causes python to treat "json" as a variable in the except block
* fix: always return a list, even if we catch an exception
* feat(marketplace): Add Crawl4AI marketplace with secure configuration
- Implement marketplace frontend and admin dashboard
- Add FastAPI backend with environment-based configuration
- Use .env file for secrets management
- Include data generation scripts
- Add proper CORS configuration
- Remove hardcoded password from admin login
- Update gitignore for security
* fix(marketplace): Update URLs to use /marketplace path and relative API endpoints
- Change API_BASE to relative '/api' for production
- Move marketplace to /marketplace instead of /marketplace/frontend
- Update MkDocs navigation
- Fix logo path in marketplace index
* fix(docs): hide copy menu on non-markdown pages
* feat(marketplace): add sponsor logo uploads
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* feat(docs): add chatgpt quick link to page actions
* fix(marketplace): align admin api with backend endpoints
* fix(marketplace): isolate api under marketplace prefix
* fix(marketplace): resolve app detail page routing and styling issues
- Fixed JavaScript errors from missing HTML elements (install-code, usage-code, integration-code)
- Added missing CSS classes for tabs, overview layout, sidebar, and integration content
- Fixed tab navigation to display horizontally in single line
- Added proper padding to tab content sections (removed from container, added to content)
- Fixed tab selector from .nav-tab to .tab-btn to match HTML structure
- Added sidebar styling with stats grid and metadata display
- Improved responsive design with mobile-friendly tab scrolling
- Fixed code block positioning for copy buttons
- Removed margin from first headings to prevent extra spacing
- Added null checks for DOM elements in JavaScript to prevent errors
These changes resolve the routing issue where clicking on apps caused page redirects,
and fix the broken layout where CSS was not properly applied to the app detail page.
* fix(marketplace): prevent hero image overflow and secondary card stretching
- Fixed hero image to 200px height with min/max constraints
- Added object-fit: cover to hero-image img elements
- Changed secondary-featured align-items from stretch to flex-start
- Fixed secondary-card height to 118px (no flex: 1 stretching)
- Updated responsive grid layouts for wider screens
- Added flex: 1 to hero-content for better content distribution
These changes ensure a rigid, predictable layout that prevents:
1. Large images from pushing text content down
2. Single secondary cards from stretching to fill entire height
* feat: Add hooks utility for function-based hooks with Docker client integration. ref #1377
Add hooks_to_string() utility function that converts Python function objects
to string representations for the Docker API, enabling developers to write hooks
as regular Python functions instead of strings.
Core Changes:
- New hooks_to_string() utility in crawl4ai/utils.py using inspect.getsource()
- Docker client now accepts both function objects and strings for hooks
- Automatic detection and conversion in Crawl4aiDockerClient._prepare_request()
- New hooks and hooks_timeout parameters in client.crawl() method
Documentation:
- Docker client examples with function-based hooks (docs/examples/docker_client_hooks_example.py)
- Updated main Docker deployment guide with comprehensive hooks section
- Added unit tests for hooks utility (tests/docker/test_hooks_utility.py)
* feat: Add hooks utility for function-based hooks with Docker client integration. ref #1377
Add hooks_to_string() utility function that converts Python function objects
to string representations for the Docker API, enabling developers to write hooks
as regular Python functions instead of strings.
Core Changes:
- New hooks_to_string() utility in crawl4ai/utils.py using inspect.getsource()
- Docker client now accepts both function objects and strings for hooks
- Automatic detection and conversion in Crawl4aiDockerClient._prepare_request()
- New hooks and hooks_timeout parameters in client.crawl() method
Documentation:
- Docker client examples with function-based hooks (docs/examples/docker_client_hooks_example.py)
- Updated main Docker deployment guide with comprehensive hooks section
- Added unit tests for hooks utility (tests/docker/test_hooks_utility.py)
* fix(docs): clarify Docker Hooks System with function-based API in README
* docs: Add demonstration files for v0.7.5 release, showcasing the new Docker Hooks System and all other features.
* docs: Update 0.7.5 video walkthrough
* docs: add complete SDK reference documentation
Add comprehensive single-page SDK reference combining:
- Installation & Setup
- Quick Start
- Core API (AsyncWebCrawler, arun, arun_many, CrawlResult)
- Configuration (BrowserConfig, CrawlerConfig, Parameters)
- Crawling Patterns
- Content Processing (Markdown, Fit Markdown, Selection, Interaction, Link & Media)
- Extraction Strategies (LLM and No-LLM)
- Advanced Features (Session Management, Hooks & Auth)
Generated using scripts/generate_sdk_docs.py in ultra-dense mode
optimized for AI assistant consumption.
Stats: 23K words, 185 code blocks, 220KB
* feat: add AI assistant skill package for Crawl4AI
- Create comprehensive skill package for AI coding assistants
- Include complete SDK reference (23K words, v0.7.4)
- Add three extraction scripts (basic, batch, pipeline)
- Implement version tracking in skill and scripts
- Add prominent download section on homepage
- Place skill in docs/assets for web distribution
The skill enables AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf
to effectively use Crawl4AI with optimized workflows for markdown
generation and data extraction.
* fix: remove non-existent wiki link and clarify skill usage instructions
* fix: update Crawl4AI skill with corrected parameters and examples
- Fixed CrawlerConfig → CrawlerRunConfig throughout
- Fixed parameter names (timeout → page_timeout, store_html removed)
- Fixed schema format (selector → baseSelector)
- Corrected proxy configuration (in BrowserConfig, not CrawlerRunConfig)
- Fixed fit_markdown usage with content filters
- Added comprehensive references to docs/examples/ directory
- Created safe packaging script to avoid root directory pollution
- All scripts tested and verified working
* fix: thoroughly verify and fix all Crawl4AI skill examples
- Cross-checked every section against actual docs
- Fixed BM25ContentFilter parameters (user_query, bm25_threshold)
- Removed incorrect wait_for selector from basic example
- Added comprehensive test suite (4 test files)
- All examples now tested and verified working
- Tests validate: basic crawling, markdown generation, data extraction, advanced patterns
- Package size: 76.6 KB (includes tests for future validation)
* feat(ci): split release pipeline and add Docker caching
- Split release.yml into PyPI/GitHub release and Docker workflows
- Add GitHub Actions cache for Docker builds (10-15x faster rebuilds)
- Implement dual-trigger for docker-release.yml (auto + manual)
- Add comprehensive workflow documentation in .github/workflows/docs/
- Backup original workflow as release.yml.backup
* feat: add webhook notifications for crawl job completion
Implements webhook support for the crawl job API to eliminate polling requirements.
Changes:
- Added WebhookConfig and WebhookPayload schemas to schemas.py
- Created webhook.py with WebhookDeliveryService class
- Integrated webhook notifications in api.py handle_crawl_job
- Updated job.py CrawlJobPayload to accept webhook_config
- Added webhook configuration section to config.yml
- Included comprehensive usage examples in WEBHOOK_EXAMPLES.md
Features:
- Webhook notifications on job completion (success/failure)
- Configurable data inclusion in webhook payload
- Custom webhook headers support
- Global default webhook URL configuration
- Exponential backoff retry logic (5 attempts: 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s)
- 30-second timeout per webhook call
Usage:
POST /crawl/job with optional webhook_config:
- webhook_url: URL to receive notifications
- webhook_data_in_payload: include full results (default: false)
- webhook_headers: custom headers for authentication
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* docs: add webhook documentation to Docker README
Added comprehensive webhook section to README.md including:
- Overview of asynchronous job queue with webhooks
- Benefits and use cases
- Quick start examples
- Webhook authentication
- Global webhook configuration
- Job status polling alternative
Updated table of contents and summary to include webhook feature.
Maintains consistent tone and style with rest of README.
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* docs: add webhook example for Docker deployment
Added docker_webhook_example.py demonstrating:
- Submitting crawl jobs with webhook configuration
- Flask-based webhook receiver implementation
- Three usage patterns:
1. Webhook notification only (fetch data separately)
2. Webhook with full data in payload
3. Traditional polling approach for comparison
Includes comprehensive comments explaining:
- Webhook payload structure
- Authentication headers setup
- Error handling
- Production deployment tips
Example is fully functional and ready to run with Flask installed.
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* test: add webhook implementation validation tests
Added comprehensive test suite to validate webhook implementation:
- Module import verification
- WebhookDeliveryService initialization
- Pydantic model validation (WebhookConfig)
- Payload construction logic
- Exponential backoff calculation
- API integration checks
All tests pass (6/6), confirming implementation is correct.
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* test: add comprehensive webhook feature test script
Added end-to-end test script that automates webhook feature testing:
Script Features (test_webhook_feature.sh):
- Automatic branch switching and dependency installation
- Redis and server startup/shutdown management
- Webhook receiver implementation
- Integration test for webhook notifications
- Comprehensive cleanup and error handling
- Returns to original branch after completion
Test Flow:
1. Fetch and checkout webhook feature branch
2. Activate venv and install dependencies
3. Start Redis and Crawl4AI server
4. Submit crawl job with webhook config
5. Verify webhook delivery and payload
6. Clean up all processes and return to original branch
Documentation:
- WEBHOOK_TEST_README.md with usage instructions
- Troubleshooting guide
- Exit codes and safety features
Usage: ./tests/test_webhook_feature.sh
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* fix: properly serialize Pydantic HttpUrl in webhook config
Use model_dump(mode='json') instead of deprecated dict() method to ensure
Pydantic special types (HttpUrl, UUID, etc.) are properly serialized to
JSON-compatible native Python types.
This fixes webhook delivery failures caused by HttpUrl objects remaining
as Pydantic types in the webhook_config dict, which caused JSON
serialization errors and httpx request failures.
Also update mcp requirement to >=1.18.0 for compatibility.
* feat: add webhook support for /llm/job endpoint
Add comprehensive webhook notification support for the /llm/job endpoint,
following the same pattern as the existing /crawl/job implementation.
Changes:
- Add webhook_config field to LlmJobPayload model (job.py)
- Implement webhook notifications in process_llm_extraction() with 4
notification points: success, provider validation failure, extraction
failure, and general exceptions (api.py)
- Store webhook_config in Redis task data for job tracking
- Initialize WebhookDeliveryService with exponential backoff retry logic
Documentation:
- Add Example 6 to WEBHOOK_EXAMPLES.md showing LLM extraction with webhooks
- Update Flask webhook handler to support both crawl and llm_extraction tasks
- Add TypeScript client examples for LLM jobs
- Add comprehensive examples to docker_webhook_example.py with schema support
- Clarify data structure differences between webhook and API responses
Testing:
- Add test_llm_webhook_feature.py with 7 validation tests (all passing)
- Verify pattern consistency with /crawl/job implementation
- Add implementation guide (WEBHOOK_LLM_JOB_IMPLEMENTATION.md)
* fix: remove duplicate comma in webhook_config parameter
* fix: update Crawl4AI Docker container port from 11234 to 11235
* Release v0.7.6: The 0.7.6 Update
- Updated version to 0.7.6
- Added comprehensive demo and release notes
- Updated all documentation
- Update the veriosn in Dockerfile to 0.7.6
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- Moved sentence-transformers from core to optional dependencies in pyproject.toml
- Removed sentence-transformers from requirements.txt
- Added proper ImportError handling with helpful installation message
- This prevents ~2.5GB of NVIDIA CUDA libraries from being installed by default
- Users who need embedding features can install with: pip install 'crawl4ai[transformer]'
This commit introduces the adaptive crawling feature to the crawl4ai project. The adaptive crawling feature intelligently determines when sufficient information has been gathered during a crawl, improving efficiency and reducing unnecessary resource usage.
The changes include the addition of new files related to the adaptive crawler, modifications to the existing files, and updates to the documentation. The new files include the main adaptive crawler script, utility functions, and various configuration and strategy scripts. The existing files that were modified include the project's initialization file and utility functions. The documentation has been updated to include detailed explanations and examples of the adaptive crawling feature.
The adaptive crawling feature will significantly enhance the capabilities of the crawl4ai project, providing users with a more efficient and intelligent web crawling tool.
Significant modifications:
- Added adaptive_crawler.py and related scripts
- Modified __init__.py and utils.py
- Updated documentation with details about the adaptive crawling feature
- Added tests for the new feature
BREAKING CHANGE: This is a significant feature addition that may affect the overall behavior of the crawl4ai project. Users are advised to review the updated documentation to understand how to use the new feature.
Refs: #123, #456
Adds a new wait_for_timeout parameter to CrawlerRunConfig that allows specifying
a separate timeout for the wait_for condition, independent of the page_timeout.
This provides more granular control over waiting behaviors in the crawler.
Also removes unused colorama dependency and updates LinkedIn crawler example.
BREAKING CHANGE: LinkedIn crawler example now uses different wait_for_images timing
- Update Docker base image to Python 3.12-slim-bookworm
- Bump version from 0.6.0rc1 to 0.6.0
- Update documentation to reflect release version changes
- Fix license specification in pyproject.toml and setup.py
- Clean up code formatting in demo_docker_api.py
BREAKING CHANGE: Base Python version upgraded from 3.10 to 3.12
Major updates to Docker deployment infrastructure:
- Switch default port to 11235 for all services
- Add MCP (Model Context Protocol) support with WebSocket/SSE endpoints
- Simplify docker-compose.yml with auto-platform detection
- Update documentation with new features and examples
- Consolidate configuration and improve resource management
BREAKING CHANGE: Default port changed from 8020 to 11235. Update your configurations and deployment scripts accordingly.
Add special handling for single URL requests in Docker API to use arun() instead of arun_many()
Add new example script demonstrating performance differences between sequential and parallel crawling
Update cache mode from aggressive to bypass in examples and tests
Remove unused dependencies (zstandard, msgpack)
BREAKING CHANGE: Changed default cache_mode from aggressive to bypass in examples
Add new preprocess_html_for_schema utility function to better handle HTML cleaning
for schema generation. This replaces the previous optimize_html function in the
GoogleSearchCrawler and includes smarter attribute handling and pattern detection.
Other changes:
- Update default provider to gpt-4o
- Add DEFAULT_PROVIDER_API_KEY constant
- Make LLMConfig creation more flexible with create_llm_config helper
- Add new dependencies: zstandard and msgpack
This change improves schema generation reliability while reducing noise in the
processed HTML.
Make 'crawl' the default command when no command is specified.
This improves user experience by allowing direct URL input without
explicitly specifying the 'crawl' command.
Also removes unnecessary blank lines in example code for better readability.
Adds new interactive browser profile management system that allows users to:
- Create and manage browser profiles for authenticated crawling
- List existing profiles with detailed information
- Delete unused profiles
- Use profiles during crawling with the new -p/--profile flag
Also restructures CLI to use Click groups and adds humanize dependency for better size formatting.
Adds a new BrowserProfiler class that provides comprehensive management of browser profiles for identity-based crawling. Features include:
- Interactive profile creation and management
- Profile listing, retrieval, and deletion
- Guided console interface
- Migration of profile management from ManagedBrowser
- New example script for identity-based browsing
ALSO:
- Updates logging format in AsyncWebCrawler
- Removes content filter from hello_world example
- Relaxes httpx version constraint
BREAKING CHANGE: Profile management methods from ManagedBrowser are now deprecated and delegate to BrowserProfiler
* fix: Update export of URLPatternFilter
* chore: Add dependancy for cchardet in requirements
* docs: Update example for deep crawl in release note for v0.5
* Docs: update the example for memory dispatcher
* docs: updated example for crawl strategies
* Refactor: Removed wrapping in if __name__==main block since this is a markdown file.
* chore: removed cchardet from dependancy list, since unclecode is planning to remove it
* docs: updated the example for proxy rotation to a working example
* feat: Introduced ProxyConfig param
* Add tutorial for deep crawl & update contributor list for bug fixes in feb alpha-1
* chore: update and test new dependancies
* feat:Make PyPDF2 a conditional dependancy
* updated tutorial and release note for v0.5
* docs: update docs for deep crawl, and fix a typo in docker-deployment markdown filename
* refactor: 1. Deprecate markdown_v2 2. Make markdown backward compatible to behave as a string when needed. 3. Fix LlmConfig usage in cli 4. Deprecate markdown_v2 in cli 5. Update AsyncWebCrawler for changes in CrawlResult
* fix: Bug in serialisation of markdown in acache_url
* Refactor: Added deprecation errors for fit_html and fit_markdown directly on markdown. Now access them via markdown
* fix: remove deprecated markdown_v2 from docker
* Refactor: remove deprecated fit_markdown and fit_html from result
* refactor: fix cache retrieval for markdown as a string
* chore: update all docs, examples and tests with deprecation announcements for markdown_v2, fit_html, fit_markdown
Make PyPDF2 an optional dependency and improve import handling in PDF processor.
Move imports inside methods to allow for lazy loading and better error handling.
Add new 'pdf' optional dependency group in pyproject.toml.
Clean up unused imports and remove deprecated files.
BREAKING CHANGE: PyPDF2 is now an optional dependency. Users need to install with 'pip install crawl4ai[pdf]' to use PDF processing features.
Implements a new AsyncHTTPCrawlerStrategy class that provides a fast, memory-efficient alternative to browser-based crawling. Features include:
- Support for HTTP/HTTPS requests with configurable methods, headers, and timeouts
- File and raw content handling capabilities
- Streaming response processing for large files
- Customizable request/response hooks
- Comprehensive error handling
Also refactors browser management code into separate module for better organization.
Uncomments demonstration code for memory dispatcher, streaming support,
content scraping, JSON schema generation, LLM markdown, and robots compliance
in the v0.4.3b2 features demo file. Also adds fake-useragent package as a
project dependency.
This change makes all feature demonstrations active by default and ensures
proper user agent handling capabilities.
Prepare the v0.4.3 beta release with major feature additions and improvements:
- Add JsonXPathExtractionStrategy and LLMContentFilter to exports
- Update version to 0.4.3b1
- Improve documentation for dispatchers and markdown generation
- Update development status to Beta
- Reorganize changelog format
BREAKING CHANGE: Memory threshold in MemoryAdaptiveDispatcher increased to 90% and SemaphoreDispatcher parameter renamed to max_session_permit
Implement more robust browser executable path handling using playwright's built-in browser management. This change:
- Adds async browser path resolution
- Implements path caching in the home folder
- Removes hardcoded browser paths
- Adds httpx dependency
- Removes obsolete test result files
This change makes the browser path resolution more reliable across different platforms and environments.
Adds a new ScrapingMode enum to allow switching between BeautifulSoup and LXML parsing.
LXML mode offers 10-20x better performance for large HTML documents.
Key changes:
- Added ScrapingMode enum with BEAUTIFULSOUP and LXML options
- Implemented LXMLWebScrapingStrategy class
- Added LXML-based metadata extraction
- Updated documentation with scraping mode usage and performance considerations
- Added cssselect dependency
BREAKING CHANGE: None
Reorganize documentation into core/advanced/extraction sections for better navigation.
Update terminal theme styles and add rich library for better CLI output.
Remove redundant tutorial files and consolidate content into core sections.
Add personal story to index page for project context.
BREAKING CHANGE: Documentation structure has been significantly reorganized
- Replace explicit package listing with setuptools.find
- Include all crawl4ai.* packages automatically
- Use `packages = {find = {where = ["."], include = ["crawl4ai*"]}}` syntax
- Bump version to 0.4.243
This change simplifies package maintenance by automatically discovering
all subpackages under crawl4ai namespace instead of listing them manually.
- Add --force flag to Playwright browser installation
- Add doctor command to test crawling functionality
- Install Chrome and Chromium browsers explicitly
- Add crawl4ai-doctor entry point in pyproject.toml
- Implement simple health check focused on crawling test
- Add pyproject.toml for PEP 517 build system support
- Configure dependencies, scripts, and metadata in pyproject.toml
- Set Python requirement to >=3.9 and add support up to 3.13
- Keep setup.py for backwards compatibility
- Move package dependencies and entry points to pyproject.toml
