## [0.2.71] 2024-06-26

• 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

.gitignore

@@ -185,4 +185,6 @@ local/
 
 a.txt
 .lambda_function.py
-ec2*
+ec2*
+
+update_changelog.sh

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.2.71] 2024-06-26
+• 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
+
+## [0.2.71] - 2024-06-25
+### Fixed
+- Speed up twice the extraction function.
+
+
 ## [0.2.6] - 2024-06-22
 ### Fixed
 - Fix issue #19: Update Dockerfile to ensure compatibility across multiple platforms.

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Crawl4AI v0.2.7 🕷️🤖
+# Crawl4AI v0.2.71 🕷️🤖
 
 [![GitHub Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/unclecode/crawl4ai?style=social)](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/stargazers)
 [![GitHub Forks](https://img.shields.io/github/forks/unclecode/crawl4ai?style=social)](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/network/members)

crawl4ai/crawler_strategy.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
 from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
 from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
 from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
-from selenium.common.exceptions import InvalidArgumentException
+from selenium.common.exceptions import InvalidArgumentException, WebDriverException
 from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
 from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
 
@@ -220,9 +220,18 @@ class LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy(CrawlerStrategy):
             
             return html
         except InvalidArgumentException:
-            raise InvalidArgumentException(f"Invalid URL {url}")
+            if not hasattr(e, 'msg'):
+                e.msg = str(e)
+            raise InvalidArgumentException(f"Failed to crawl {url}: {e.msg}")
+        except WebDriverException as e:
+            # If e does nlt have msg attribute create it and set it to str(e)
+            if not hasattr(e, 'msg'):
+                e.msg = str(e)
+            raise WebDriverException(f"Failed to crawl {url}: {e.msg}")  
         except Exception as e:
-            raise Exception(f"Failed to crawl {url}: {str(e)}")
+            if not hasattr(e, 'msg'):
+                e.msg = str(e)
+            raise Exception(f"Failed to crawl {url}: {e.msg}")
 
     def take_screenshot(self) -> str:
         try:

crawl4ai/utils.py

@@ -438,18 +438,17 @@ def get_content_of_website_optimized(url: str, html: str, word_count_threshold:
     links = {'internal': [], 'external': []}
     media = {'images': [], 'videos': [], 'audios': []}
 
-    def process_element(element: element.PageElement) -> None:
+    def process_element(element: element.PageElement) -> bool:
         if isinstance(element, NavigableString):
             if isinstance(element, Comment):
                 element.extract()
-            return
-
-        # if not isinstance(element, element.Tag):
-        #     return
+            return False
 
         if element.name in ['script', 'style', 'link', 'meta', 'noscript']:
             element.decompose()
-            return
+            return False
+
+        keep_element = False
 
         if element.name == 'a' and element.get('href'):
             href = element['href']
@@ -459,6 +458,7 @@ def get_content_of_website_optimized(url: str, html: str, word_count_threshold:
                 links['external'].append(link_data)
             else:
                 links['internal'].append(link_data)
+            keep_element = True
 
         elif element.name == 'img':
             media['images'].append({
@@ -466,12 +466,7 @@ def get_content_of_website_optimized(url: str, html: str, word_count_threshold:
                 'alt': element.get('alt'),
                 'type': 'image'
             })
-            alt_text = element.get('alt')
-            if alt_text:
-                element.replace_with(soup.new_string(alt_text))
-            else:
-                element.decompose()
-            return
+            return True  # Always keep image elements
 
         elif element.name in ['video', 'audio']:
             media[f"{element.name}s"].append({
@@ -479,6 +474,7 @@ def get_content_of_website_optimized(url: str, html: str, word_count_threshold:
                 'alt': element.get('alt'),
                 'type': element.name
             })
+            return True  # Always keep video and audio elements
 
         if element.name != 'pre':
             if element.name in ['b', 'i', 'u', 'span', 'del', 'ins', 'sub', 'sup', 'strong', 'em', 'code', 'kbd', 'var', 's', 'q', 'abbr', 'cite', 'dfn', 'time', 'small', 'mark']:
@@ -489,17 +485,26 @@ def get_content_of_website_optimized(url: str, html: str, word_count_threshold:
             elif element.name != 'img':
                 element.attrs = {}
 
-        word_count = len(element.get_text(strip=True).split())
-        if word_count < word_count_threshold:
-            element.decompose()
-            return
-
+        # Process children
         for child in list(element.children):
-            process_element(child)
+            if isinstance(child, NavigableString) and not isinstance(child, Comment):
+                if len(child.strip()) > 0:
+                    keep_element = True
+            else:
+                if process_element(child):
+                    keep_element = True
+            
 
-        if not element.contents and not element.get_text(strip=True):
+        # Check word count
+        if not keep_element:
+            word_count = len(element.get_text(strip=True).split())
+            keep_element = word_count >= word_count_threshold
+
+        if not keep_element:
             element.decompose()
 
+        return keep_element
+
     process_element(body)
 
     def flatten_nested_elements(node):

crawl4ai/web_crawler.py

@@ -129,47 +129,57 @@ class WebCrawler:
             verbose=True,
             **kwargs,
         ) -> CrawlResult:
-            extraction_strategy = extraction_strategy or NoExtractionStrategy()
-            extraction_strategy.verbose = verbose
-            if not isinstance(extraction_strategy, ExtractionStrategy):
-                raise ValueError("Unsupported extraction strategy")
-            if not isinstance(chunking_strategy, ChunkingStrategy):
-                raise ValueError("Unsupported chunking strategy")
-            
-            if word_count_threshold < MIN_WORD_THRESHOLD:
-                word_count_threshold = MIN_WORD_THRESHOLD
+            try:
+                extraction_strategy = extraction_strategy or NoExtractionStrategy()
+                extraction_strategy.verbose = verbose
+                if not isinstance(extraction_strategy, ExtractionStrategy):
+                    raise ValueError("Unsupported extraction strategy")
+                if not isinstance(chunking_strategy, ChunkingStrategy):
+                    raise ValueError("Unsupported chunking strategy")
+                
+                # if word_count_threshold < MIN_WORD_THRESHOLD:
+                #     word_count_threshold = MIN_WORD_THRESHOLD
+                    
+                word_count_threshold = max(word_count_threshold, 0)
 
-            # Check cache first
-            cached = None
-            screenshot_data = None
-            extracted_content = None
-            if not bypass_cache and not self.always_by_pass_cache:
-                cached = get_cached_url(url)
-            
-            if kwargs.get("warmup", True) and not self.ready:
-                return None
-            
-            if cached:
-                html = cached[1]
-                extracted_content = cached[4]
-                if screenshot:
-                    screenshot_data = cached[9]
-                    if not screenshot_data:
-                        cached = None
-            
-            if not cached or not html:
-                if user_agent:
-                    self.crawler_strategy.update_user_agent(user_agent)
-                t1 = time.time()
-                html = self.crawler_strategy.crawl(url)
-                t2 = time.time()
-                if verbose:
-                    print(f"[LOG] 🚀 Crawling done for {url}, success: {bool(html)}, time taken: {t2 - t1} seconds")
-                if screenshot:
-                    screenshot_data = self.crawler_strategy.take_screenshot()
+                # Check cache first
+                cached = None
+                screenshot_data = None
+                extracted_content = None
+                if not bypass_cache and not self.always_by_pass_cache:
+                    cached = get_cached_url(url)
+                
+                if kwargs.get("warmup", True) and not self.ready:
+                    return None
+                
+                if cached:
+                    html = cached[1]
+                    extracted_content = cached[4]
+                    if screenshot:
+                        screenshot_data = cached[9]
+                        if not screenshot_data:
+                            cached = None
+                
+                if not cached or not html:
+                    if user_agent:
+                        self.crawler_strategy.update_user_agent(user_agent)
+                    t1 = time.time()
+                    html = self.crawler_strategy.crawl(url)
+                    t2 = time.time()
+                    if verbose:
+                        print(f"[LOG] 🚀 Crawling done for {url}, success: {bool(html)}, time taken: {t2 - t1} seconds")
+                    if screenshot:
+                        screenshot_data = self.crawler_strategy.take_screenshot()
 
-            
-            return self.process_html(url, html, extracted_content, word_count_threshold, extraction_strategy, chunking_strategy, css_selector, screenshot_data, verbose, bool(cached), **kwargs)
+                
+                crawl_result = self.process_html(url, html, extracted_content, word_count_threshold, extraction_strategy, chunking_strategy, css_selector, screenshot_data, verbose, bool(cached), **kwargs)
+                crawl_result.success = bool(html)
+                return crawl_result
+            except Exception as e:
+                if not hasattr(e, "msg"):
+                    e.msg = str(e)
+                print(f"[ERROR] 🚫 Failed to crawl {url}, error: {e.msg}")    
+                return CrawlResult(url=url, html="", success=False, error_message=e.msg)
 
     def process_html(
             self,

docs/md/changelog.md

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [0.2.7] - 2024-06-27
+## [0.2.71] 2024-06-26
+• 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
+
+## [0.2.71] - 2024-06-25
 ### Fixed
 - Speed up twice the extraction function.
 

docs/md/index.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Crawl4AI v0.2.7
+# Crawl4AI v0.2.71
 
 Welcome to the official documentation for Crawl4AI! 🕷️🤖 Crawl4AI is an open-source Python library designed to simplify web crawling and extract useful information from web pages. This documentation will guide you through the features, usage, and customization of Crawl4AI.
 

setup.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class CustomInstallCommand(install):
 
 setup(
     name="Crawl4AI",
-    version="0.2.7",
+    version="0.2.71",
     description="🔥🕷️ Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scrapper",
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",