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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## My Personal Journey
I’ve always loved exploring the web development, back from when HTML and JavaScript were hardly intertwined. My curiosity drove me into web development, mathematics, AI, and machine learning, always keeping a close tie to real industrial applications. In 2009–2010, as a postgraduate student, I created platforms to gather and organize published papers for Master’s and PhD researchers. Faced with post-grad students’ data challenges, I built a helper app to crawl newly published papers and public data. Relying on Internet Explorer and DLL hacks was far more cumbersome than modern tools, highlighting my longtime background in data extraction.
Fast-forward to 2023: I needed to fetch web data and transform it into neat **markdown** for my AI pipeline. All solutions I found were either **closed-source**, overpriced, or produced low-quality output. As someone who has built large edu-tech ventures (like KidoCode), I believe **data belongs to the people**. We shouldn’t pay $16 just to parse the web’s publicly available content. This friction led me to create my own library, **Crawl4AI**, in a matter of days to meet my immediate needs. Unexpectedly, it went **viral**, accumulating thousands of GitHub stars.
Now, in **January 2025**, Crawl4AI has surpassed **21,000 stars** and remains the #1 trending repository. It’s my way of giving back to the community after benefiting from open source for years. I’m thrilled by how many of you share that passion. Thank you for being here, join our Discord, file issues, submit PRs, or just spread the word. Let’s build the best data extraction, crawling, and scraping library **together**.
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## What Does Crawl4AI Do?
Crawl4AI is a feature-rich crawler and scraper that aims to:
1.**Generate Clean Markdown**: Perfect for RAG pipelines or direct ingestion into LLMs.
2.**Structured Extraction**: Parse repeated patterns with CSS, XPath, or LLM-based extraction.
Throughout these sections, you’ll find code samples you can **copy-paste** into your environment. If something is missing or unclear, raise an issue or PR.
**Our mission**: to empower everyone—students, researchers, entrepreneurs, data scientists—to access, parse, and shape the world’s data with speed, cost-efficiency, and creative freedom.
