crawl4ai

Open-source crawler built for LLMs/agents — "any website → LLM-ready markdown"

★ 84,558 stars, verified 2026-09-30Category: Search / Scraping / Data InfraGitHub repository ↗

An open-source crawler built for LLMs and agents: "any website → LLM-ready markdown".

Search engines, scrapers, and data infrastructure for AI pipelines.

Key features

Good for

Stack & tags

PythonDockerweb-scraperweb-crawlerllm-datamarkdownragstructured-extraction

Quick start

pip install -U crawl4ai
crawl4ai-setup

From the project README on GitHub.

Screenshots

Screenshots from the project’s GitHub README.

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