Crawl4AI is an open-source web crawling and scraping tool designed specifically for AI enthusiasts and developers.
Web Crawling: It efficiently extracts valuable data from websites, allowing users to crawl multiple URLs simultaneously.
LLM-Friendly Output: Crawl4AI generates output in formats that are easily consumable by Large Language Models (LLMs), including JSON, cleaned HTML, and markdown.
Customization: Users can execute custom JavaScript before crawling, apply CSS selectors, and pass instructions or keywords to refine the extraction process.
Chunking Strategies: The tool offers various chunking methods, including topic-based, regex, and sentence-based strategies, to break down the crawled content into manageable pieces.
Extraction Strategies: It employs different extraction techniques such as cosine clustering and LLM-based extraction to organize and summarize the crawled data.
Media Handling: Crawl4AI can replace media tags with ALT text, making the content more accessible for text-based analysis.
Open-Source and Free: The tool is completely free to use and its source code is openly available on GitHub.
Colab Compatibility: Crawl4AI is designed to run efficiently on Google Colab, making it accessible for users without the need for local setup.
Performance Improvements: Recent updates have significantly enhanced the tool's speed, making it up to 10 times faster than previous versions.
Crawl4AI aims to simplify the process of web data extraction for AI applications, providing developers with flexible and powerful tools to gather and process web content in a format suitable for further analysis or use in AI models.