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🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scraper. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/jP8KfhDhyN

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Crawl4AI is a fast, fully open-source crawler that outputs LLM-friendly Markdown with smart extraction strategies, built to run entirely on your own machine.

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Install
pip install crawl4ai
crawl4ai-setup # Setup the browser

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🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scraper. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/jP8KfhDhyN

crawl4ai has 80.2k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 8.3k times. crawl4ai is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2024. crawl4ai is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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What is crawl4ai?

🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scraper. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/jP8KfhDhyN

Is crawl4ai open source?

crawl4ai is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is crawl4ai free?

Yes. crawl4ai is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does crawl4ai use?

crawl4ai is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is crawl4ai written in?

crawl4ai is written mainly in Python.

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