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Crawl4AI

Python web crawler that turns websites into Markdown for LLMs

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What it is

Crawl4AI is an async Python library, CLI, and Docker server that drives headless browsers to crawl sites and convert pages into clean Markdown or structured JSON. It supports deep crawls, CSS/XPath and LLM-based extraction, content filtering, sessions, proxies, and stealth options, and exposes an MCP endpoint for agents. Developers building RAG pipelines and AI agents use it to feed web content into language models without hand-writing scrapers.

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Stars
85,914 GitHub stars.
85,914

Forks
8,939
Commits
1,783
Contributors
93
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
May 2024
First release
March 2025
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, self-hosted, library
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Apify
Author
UncleCode
Tags
  • mcp-server
  • markdown
  • browser-automation
  • data-pipeline
  • rag
  • web-scraping

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Updated Oct 20, 2026
  • Hacker NewsCrawl4AI is an open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler and scraperApr 29, 2025 · 7 points · 2 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCrawl4AI: Open-Source Web Crawler for Seamless AI Data ScrapingSep 29, 2024 · 6 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker Newscrawl4ai: The Adaptive Intelligence UpdateJul 12, 2025 · 4 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
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  • Bluesky“or yeah commercial platforms such as www.firecrawl.dev or the prev mentioned”Oct 6, 2025 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Best web crawlers to know: Firecrawl, Scrapy, Crawl4AI, and Crawlee. Official sources: - - - -”Jun 8, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“unclecode/crawl4ai 🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scraper. Don't be shy, join here: 🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web ... Origin…”Jul 22, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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