- User agent

- Extract Links
- Extract Metadata
- Update Readme
- Update REST API document

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-# Changelog
+# Changelog
+
+## TODO:
+- User agent: "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.101.76 Safari/537.36",

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Crawl4AI has one clear task: to simplify crawling and extract useful information
 
 ### v0.2.3
 - 🎨 Extract and return all media tags (Images, Audio, and Video). Check `result.media`
+- 🔗 Extrat all external and internal links. Check `result.links`
+- 📚 Extract metadata from the page. Check `result.metadata`
+- 🕵️ Support `user_agent` parameter to set the user agent for the HTTP requests.
 - 🖼️ Take [screenshots](#taking-screenshots) of the page.
 
 ### v0.2.2
@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ Crawl4AI has one clear task: to simplify crawling and extract useful information
 
 ## Power and Simplicity of Crawl4AI 🚀
 
-The most easy way! If you don't want to install any library, you can use the REST API on my server. But remember, this is just a simple server. I may improve its capacity if I see there is demand.
+The most easy way! If you don't want to install any library, you can use the REST API on my server. But remember, this is just a simple server. I may improve its capacity if I see there is demand. You can find ll examples of REST API in this colab notebook. [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1zODYjhemJ5bUmYceWpVoBMVpd0ofzNBZ?usp=sharing)
 
 ```python
 import requests
@@ -41,7 +44,6 @@ data = {
   "urls": [
     "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
   ],
-  "word_count_threshold": 5,
   "screenshot": True
 }
 
@@ -242,8 +244,12 @@ To use the REST API, send a POST request to `http://localhost:8000/crawl` with t
             "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business",
             "extracted_content": "...",
             "html": "...",
+            "cleaned_html": "...",
             "markdown": "...",
-            "metadata": {...}
+            "media": {...},
+            "links": {...},
+            "metadata": {...},
+            "screenshots": "...",
         }
     ]
 }
@@ -282,6 +288,24 @@ Crawl result without raw HTML content:
 result = crawler.run(url="https://www.nbcnews.com/business", include_raw_html=False)
 ```
 
+### Result Structure
+
+The result object contains the following fields:
+```python
+class CrawlResult(BaseModel):
+    url: str
+    html: str
+    success: bool
+    cleaned_html: Optional[str] = None
+    media: Dict[str, List[Dict]] = {} # Media tags in the page {"images": [], "audio": [], "video": []}
+    links: Dict[str, List[Dict]] = {} # Links in the page {"external": [], "internal": []}
+    screenshot: Optional[str] = None # Base64 encoded screenshot
+    markdown: Optional[str] = None
+    extracted_content: Optional[str] = None
+    metadata: Optional[dict] = None
+    error_message: Optional[str] = None
+```
+
 ### Taking Screenshots
 
 ```python
@@ -401,6 +425,7 @@ result = crawler.run(url="https://www.nbcnews.com/business")
 | `extraction_strategy` | The strategy to use for extracting content from the HTML (e.g., "CosineStrategy").                    | No       | `NoExtractionStrategy`    |
 | `chunking_strategy`   | The strategy to use for chunking the text before processing (e.g., "RegexChunking").                  | No       | `RegexChunking`     |
 | `css_selector`        | The CSS selector to target specific parts of the HTML for extraction.                                 | No       | `None`              |
+| `user_agent`          | The user agent to use for the HTTP requests.                                                          | No       | `Mozilla/5.0`       |
 | `verbose`             | Whether to enable verbose logging.                                                                    | No       | `true`              |
 
 ## Chunking Strategies 📚

crawl4ai/crawler_strategy.py

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ class CrawlerStrategy(ABC):
     @abstractmethod
     def take_screenshot(self, save_path: str):
         pass
+    
+    @abstractmethod
+    def update_user_agent(self, user_agent: str):
+        pass
 
 class CloudCrawlerStrategy(CrawlerStrategy):
     def __init__(self, use_cached_html = False):
@@ -69,6 +73,8 @@ class LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy(CrawlerStrategy):
         print("[LOG] 🚀 Initializing LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy")
         self.options = Options()
         self.options.headless = True
+        if kwargs.get("user_agent"):
+            self.options.add_argument("--user-agent=" + kwargs.get("user_agent"))
         self.options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
         self.options.add_argument("--headless")
         # self.options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
@@ -97,6 +103,11 @@ class LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy(CrawlerStrategy):
         self.service.log_path = "NUL"
         self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=self.service, options=self.options)
 
+    def update_user_agent(self, user_agent: str):
+        self.options.add_argument(f"user-agent={user_agent}")
+        self.driver.quit()
+        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=self.service, options=self.options)
+
     def crawl(self, url: str) -> str:
         if self.use_cached_html:
             cache_file_path = os.path.join(Path.home(), ".crawl4ai", "cache", url.replace("/", "_"))

crawl4ai/database.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ def init_db():
             success BOOLEAN,
             media TEXT DEFAULT "{}",
             link TEXT DEFAULT "{}",
+            metadata TEXT DEFAULT "{}",
             screenshot TEXT DEFAULT ""
         )
     ''')
@@ -42,12 +43,12 @@ def check_db_path():
     if not DB_PATH:
         raise ValueError("Database path is not set or is empty.")
 
-def get_cached_url(url: str) -> Optional[Tuple[str, str, str, str, str, str, bool, str]]:
+def get_cached_url(url: str) -> Optional[Tuple[str, str, str, str, str, str, str, bool, str]]:
     check_db_path()
     try:
         conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_PATH)
         cursor = conn.cursor()
-        cursor.execute('SELECT url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, screenshot FROM crawled_data WHERE url = ?', (url,))
+        cursor.execute('SELECT url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, metadata, screenshot FROM crawled_data WHERE url = ?', (url,))
         result = cursor.fetchone()
         conn.close()
         return result
@@ -55,14 +56,14 @@ def get_cached_url(url: str) -> Optional[Tuple[str, str, str, str, str, str, boo
         print(f"Error retrieving cached URL: {e}")
         return None
 
-def cache_url(url: str, html: str, cleaned_html: str, markdown: str, extracted_content: str, success: bool, media : str = "{}", links : str = "{}", screenshot: str = ""):
+def cache_url(url: str, html: str, cleaned_html: str, markdown: str, extracted_content: str, success: bool, media : str = "{}", links : str = "{}", metadata : str = "{}", screenshot: str = ""):
     check_db_path()
     try:
         conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_PATH)
         cursor = conn.cursor()
         cursor.execute('''
-            INSERT INTO crawled_data (url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, screenshot)
-            VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
+            INSERT INTO crawled_data (url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, metadata, screenshot)
+            VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
             ON CONFLICT(url) DO UPDATE SET
                 html = excluded.html,
                 cleaned_html = excluded.cleaned_html,
@@ -70,9 +71,10 @@ def cache_url(url: str, html: str, cleaned_html: str, markdown: str, extracted_c
                 extracted_content = excluded.extracted_content,
                 success = excluded.success,
                 media = excluded.media,      
-                links = excluded.links,          
+                links = excluded.links,    
+                metadata = excluded.metadata,      
                 screenshot = excluded.screenshot
-        ''', (url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, screenshot))
+        ''', (url, html, cleaned_html, markdown, extracted_content, success, media, links, metadata, screenshot))
         conn.commit()
         conn.close()
     except Exception as e:
@@ -126,5 +128,5 @@ def update_existing_records(new_column: str = "media", default_value: str = "{}"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     init_db()  # Initialize the database if not already initialized
-    alter_db_add_screenshot("links")  # Add the new column to the table
-    update_existing_records("links")  # Update existing records to set the new column to an empty string
+    alter_db_add_screenshot("metadata")  # Add the new column to the table
+    update_existing_records("metadata")  # Update existing records to set the new column to an empty string

crawl4ai/utils.py

@@ -359,6 +359,47 @@ def get_content_of_website(url, html, word_count_threshold = MIN_WORD_THRESHOLD,
         print('Error processing HTML content:', str(e))
         raise InvalidCSSSelectorError(f"Invalid CSS selector: {css_selector}") from e
 
+
+
+def extract_metadata(html):
+    metadata = {}
+    
+    if not html:
+        return metadata
+    
+    # Parse HTML content with BeautifulSoup
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+
+    # Title
+    title_tag = soup.find('title')
+    metadata['title'] = title_tag.string if title_tag else None
+
+    # Meta description
+    description_tag = soup.find('meta', attrs={'name': 'description'})
+    metadata['description'] = description_tag['content'] if description_tag else None
+
+    # Meta keywords
+    keywords_tag = soup.find('meta', attrs={'name': 'keywords'})
+    metadata['keywords'] = keywords_tag['content'] if keywords_tag else None
+
+    # Meta author
+    author_tag = soup.find('meta', attrs={'name': 'author'})
+    metadata['author'] = author_tag['content'] if author_tag else None
+
+    # Open Graph metadata
+    og_tags = soup.find_all('meta', attrs={'property': lambda value: value and value.startswith('og:')})
+    for tag in og_tags:
+        property_name = tag['property']
+        metadata[property_name] = tag['content']
+
+    # Twitter Card metadata
+    twitter_tags = soup.find_all('meta', attrs={'name': lambda value: value and value.startswith('twitter:')})
+    for tag in twitter_tags:
+        property_name = tag['name']
+        metadata[property_name] = tag['content']
+
+    return metadata
+
 def extract_xml_tags(string):
     tags = re.findall(r'<(\w+)>', string)
     return list(set(tags))

crawl4ai/web_crawler.py

@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ class WebCrawler:
         css_selector: str = None,
         screenshot: bool = False,
         verbose=True,
+        user_agent: str = None,
         **kwargs,
     ) -> CrawlResult:
+        if user_agent:
+            self.crawler_strategy.update_user_agent(user_agent)
         extraction_strategy = extraction_strategy or NoExtractionStrategy()
         extraction_strategy.verbose = verbose
         # Check if extraction strategy is an instance of ExtractionStrategy if not raise an error
@@ -117,7 +120,8 @@ class WebCrawler:
                         "success": cached[5],
                         "media": json.loads(cached[6] or "{}"),
                         "links": json.loads(cached[7] or "{}"),
-                        "screenshot": cached[8],
+                        "metadata": json.loads(cached[8] or "{}"), # "metadata": "{}
+                        "screenshot": cached[9],
                         "error_message": "",
                     }
                 )
@@ -135,6 +139,7 @@ class WebCrawler:
         # Extract content from HTML
         try:
             result = get_content_of_website(url, html, word_count_threshold, css_selector=css_selector)
+            metadata = extract_metadata(html)
             if result is None:
                 raise ValueError(f"Failed to extract content from the website: {url}")
         except InvalidCSSSelectorError as e:
@@ -180,6 +185,7 @@ class WebCrawler:
             success,
             json.dumps(media),
             json.dumps(links),
+            json.dumps(metadata),
             screenshot=base64_image,
         )
 
@@ -190,6 +196,7 @@ class WebCrawler:
             markdown=markdown,
             media=media,
             links=links,
+            metadata=metadata,
             screenshot=base64_image,
             extracted_content=extracted_content,
             success=success,

docs/examples/rest_call.py

@@ -1,75 +1,64 @@
 
 import requests, base64, os
 
+data = {
+    "urls": ["https://www.nbcnews.com/business"],
+    "screenshot": True,
+}
+
+response = requests.post("https://crawl4ai.com/crawl", json=data) 
+result = response.json()['results'][0]
+print(result.keys())
+# dict_keys(['url', 'html', 'success', 'cleaned_html', 'media', 
+# 'links', 'screenshot', 'markdown', 'extracted_content', 
+# 'metadata', 'error_message'])
+with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f:
+    f.write(base64.b64decode(result['screenshot']))
+    
+# Example of filtering the content using CSS selectors
+data = {
+    "urls": [
+        "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
+    ],
+    "css_selector": "article",
+    "screenshot": True,
+}
+
+# Example of executing a JS script on the page before extracting the content
 data = {
     "urls": [
         "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
     ],
     "screenshot": True,
+    'js' : ["""
+    const loadMoreButton = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button')).
+    find(button => button.textContent.includes('Load More'));
+    loadMoreButton && loadMoreButton.click();
+    """]
 }
 
-# Example of filtering the content using CSS selectors
-# data = {
-#     "urls": [
-#         "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
-#     ],
-#     "css_selector": "article",
-#     "screenshot": True,
-# }
-
-# Example of executing a JS script on the page before extracting the content
-# data = {
-#     "urls": [
-#         "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
-#     ],
-#     "screenshot": True,
-#     'js' : ["""
-#     const loadMoreButton = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button')).
-#     find(button => button.textContent.includes('Load More'));
-#     loadMoreButton && loadMoreButton.click();
-#     """]
-# }
-
 # Example of using a custom extraction strategy
-# data = {
-#     "urls": [
-#         "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
-#     ],
-#     "extraction_strategy": "CosineStrategy",
-#     "extraction_strategy_args": {
-#         "semantic_filter": "inflation rent prices"
-#     },
-# }
+data = {
+    "urls": [
+        "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
+    ],
+    "extraction_strategy": "CosineStrategy",
+    "extraction_strategy_args": {
+        "semantic_filter": "inflation rent prices"
+    },
+}
 
 # Example of using LLM to extract content
-# data = {
-#     "urls": [
-#         "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
-#     ],
-#     "extraction_strategy": "LLMExtractionStrategy",
-#     "extraction_strategy_args": {
-#         "provider": "groq/llama3-8b-8192",
-#         "api_token": os.environ.get("GROQ_API_KEY"),
-#         "instruction": """I am interested in only financial news, 
-#         and translate them in French."""
-#     },
-# }
-
-response = requests.post("https://crawl4ai.com/crawl", json=data) 
-result = response.json()['results'][0]
-
-print(result['markdown'])
-print(result['cleaned_html'])
-print(result['media'])
-print(result['extracted_content'])
-with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f:
-    f.write(base64.b64decode(result['screenshot']))
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+data = {
+    "urls": [
+        "https://www.nbcnews.com/business"
+    ],
+    "extraction_strategy": "LLMExtractionStrategy",
+    "extraction_strategy_args": {
+        "provider": "groq/llama3-8b-8192",
+        "api_token": os.environ.get("GROQ_API_KEY"),
+        "instruction": """I am interested in only financial news, 
+        and translate them in French."""
+    },
+}
 

main.py

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ class CrawlRequest(BaseModel):
     chunking_strategy_args: Optional[dict] = {}
     css_selector: Optional[str] = None
     screenshot: Optional[bool] = False
+    user_agent: Optional[str] = None
     verbose: Optional[bool] = True
 
 
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ async def crawl_urls(crawl_request: CrawlRequest, request: Request):
                     crawl_request.bypass_cache,
                     crawl_request.css_selector,
                     crawl_request.screenshot,
+                    crawl_request.user_agent,
                     crawl_request.verbose
                 )
                 for url in crawl_request.urls