fix: pdf processing to target only css_selector, thereby give users a choice to discard unnecssary element from page in pdf generated

* Fix: Use correct URL variable for raw HTML extraction (#1116)

- Prevents full HTML content from being passed as URL to extraction strategies
- Added unit tests to verify raw HTML and regular URL processing

Fix: Wrong URL variable used for extraction of raw html

* Fix #1181: Preserve whitespace in code blocks during HTML scraping

  The remove_empty_elements_fast() method was removing whitespace-only
  span elements inside <pre> and <code> tags, causing import statements
  like "import torch" to become "importtorch". Now skips elements inside
  code blocks where whitespace is significant.

* Refactor Pydantic model configuration to use ConfigDict for arbitrary types

* Fix EmbeddingStrategy: Uncomment response handling for the variations and clean up mock data. ref #1621

* Fix: permission issues with .cache/url_seeder and other runtime cache dirs. ref #1638

* fix: ensure BrowserConfig.to_dict serializes proxy_config

* feat: make LLM backoff configurable end-to-end

- extend LLMConfig with backoff delay/attempt/factor fields and thread them
  through LLMExtractionStrategy, LLMContentFilter, table extraction, and
  Docker API handlers
- expose the backoff parameter knobs on perform_completion_with_backoff/aperform_completion_with_backoff
  and document them in the md_v2 guides

* reproduced AttributeError from #1642

* pass timeout parameter to docker client request

* added missing deep crawling objects to init

* generalized query in ContentRelevanceFilter to be a str or list

* import modules from enhanceable deserialization

* parameterized tests

* Fix: capture current page URL to reflect JavaScript navigation and add test for delayed redirects. ref #1268

* refactor: replace PyPDF2 with pypdf across the codebase. ref #1412

* announcement: add application form for cloud API closed beta

* Release v0.7.8: Stability & Bug Fix Release

- Updated version to 0.7.8
- Introduced focused stability release addressing 11 community-reported bugs.
- Key fixes include Docker API improvements, LLM extraction enhancements, URL handling corrections, and dependency updates.
- Added detailed release notes for v0.7.8 in the blog and created a dedicated verification script to ensure all fixes are functioning as intended.
- Updated documentation to reflect recent changes and improvements.

* docs: add section for Crawl4AI Cloud API closed beta with application link

* fix: add disk cleanup step to Docker workflow

---------

Co-authored-by: rbushria <rbushri@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: AHMET YILMAZ <tawfik@kidocode.com>
Co-authored-by: Soham Kukreti <kukretisoham@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris Murphy <chris.murphy@klaviyo.com>
Co-authored-by: Aravind Karnam <aravind.karanam@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/docker-release.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,25 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
+      - name: Free up disk space
+        run: |
+          echo "=== Disk space before cleanup ==="
+          df -h
+
+          # Remove unnecessary tools and libraries (frees ~25GB)
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
+          sudo rm -rf /opt/ghc
+          sudo rm -rf /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/boost
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swift
+
+          # Clean apt cache
+          sudo apt-get clean
+
+          echo "=== Disk space after cleanup ==="
+          df -h
+
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 

crawl4ai/async_crawler_strategy.py

@@ -989,8 +989,53 @@ class AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy(AsyncCrawlerStrategy):
             mhtml_data = None
 
             if config.pdf:
-                pdf_data = await self.export_pdf(page)
-
+                if config.css_selector:
+                    # Extract content with styles and fixed image URLs
+                    content_with_styles = await page.evaluate(f"""
+                        () => {{
+                            const element = document.querySelector("{config.css_selector}");
+                            const clone = element.cloneNode(true);
+                            
+                            // Fix all image URLs to absolute
+                            clone.querySelectorAll('img').forEach(img => {{
+                                if (img.src) img.src = img.src;  // This converts to absolute URL
+                            }});
+                            
+                            // Get all styles
+                            const styles = Array.from(document.styleSheets)
+                                .map(sheet => {{
+                                    try {{
+                                        return Array.from(sheet.cssRules).map(rule => rule.cssText).join('\\n');
+                                    }} catch(e) {{
+                                        return '';
+                                    }}
+                                }}).join('\\n');
+                            
+                            return {{
+                                html: clone.outerHTML,
+                                styles: styles,
+                                baseUrl: window.location.origin
+                            }};
+                        }}
+                    """)
+                    
+                    # Create page with base URL for relative resources
+                    temp_page = await context.new_page()
+                    await temp_page.goto(content_with_styles['baseUrl'])  # Set the base URL
+                    await temp_page.set_content(f"""
+                        <html>
+                        <head>
+                            <base href="{content_with_styles['baseUrl']}">
+                            <style>{content_with_styles['styles']}</style>
+                        </head>
+                        <body>{content_with_styles['html']}</body>
+                        </html>
+                    """)
+                    
+                    pdf_data = await self.export_pdf(temp_page)
+                    await temp_page.close()
+                else:
+                    pdf_data = await self.export_pdf(page)
             if config.capture_mhtml:
                 mhtml_data = await self.capture_mhtml(page)
 

crawl4ai/extraction_strategy.py

@@ -1378,10 +1378,9 @@ In this scenario, use your best judgment to generate the schema. You need to exa
                 base_url=llm_config.base_url,
                 extra_args=kwargs
             )
-              # Simply strip the markdown formatting
-            raw_json = response.choices[0].message.content.replace('```json\n', '').replace('\n```', '')
+            
             # Extract and return schema
-            return json.loads(raw_json)
+            return json.loads(response.choices[0].message.content)
             
         except Exception as e:
             raise Exception(f"Failed to generate schema: {str(e)}")