sponsors: Add thor data as sponsor

* 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
 

README.md

@@ -1093,6 +1093,7 @@ Our enterprise sponsors and technology partners help scale Crawl4AI to power pro
 
 | Company | About | Sponsorship Tier |
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+| <a href="https://www.thordata.com/?ls=github&lk=crawl4ai" target="_blank"><img src="https://gist.github.com/aravindkarnam/dfc598a67be5036494475acece7e54cf/raw/thor_data.svg" alt="Thor Data" width="120"/></a>  | Leveraging Thordata ensures seamless compatibility with any AI/ML workflows and data infrastructure, massively accessing web data with 99.9% uptime, backed by one-on-one customer support. | 🥈 Silver |
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docs/md_v2/index.md

@@ -55,6 +55,16 @@
   
 </div>
 
+---
+#### 🚀 Crawl4AI Cloud API — Closed Beta (Launching Soon)
+Reliable, large-scale web extraction, now built to be _**drastically more cost-effective**_ than any of the existing solutions.
+
+👉 **Apply [here](https://forms.gle/E9MyPaNXACnAMaqG7) for early access**  
+_We’ll be onboarding in phases and working closely with early users.
+Limited slots._
+
+---
+
 Crawl4AI is the #1 trending GitHub repository, actively maintained by a vibrant community. It delivers blazing-fast, AI-ready web crawling tailored for large language models, AI agents, and data pipelines. Fully open source, flexible, and built for real-time performance, **Crawl4AI** empowers developers with unmatched speed, precision, and deployment ease.
 
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