Crawl4AI

Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper

50,000
AI DevelopmentFree (open-source)

About Crawl4AI

Crawl4AI is a free, open-source web crawler specifically designed for LLM and AI applications. It extracts clean, structured data from websites optimized for RAG pipelines, with support for JavaScript rendering and multiple output formats.

Features

LLM-ready output
Markdown extraction
JavaScript rendering
Structured data
Batch crawling
API server

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Built specifically for AI/LLM use
  • +Free and open-source
  • +JavaScript rendering support
  • +Multiple output formats
  • +Fast async crawling

Cons

  • Relatively new project
  • Limited documentation
  • May struggle with complex sites
  • Needs Python environment

Platforms

macOSLinuxWindows

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