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Website Content Crawler

apify/website-content-crawler

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Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.

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Chrome+Playwright crawler is deprecated and not working anymore

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sestek opened this issue

Hi,

We usually use the basic cheerio to crawl web contents. In some cases, where the basic cheerio fails, we use the chrome+playwright crawler when all other crawlers fail too.

Recently, we found that the chrome headless crawler and it's not working for us anymore. We need a quick solution for this issue if that's possible. Consider that the firefox one didn't work for us.

Thanks,

Jindřich Bär (jindrich.bar)

Hello @sestek, thank you for reaching out!

The Chrome+Playwright crawler has indeed been deprecated due to performance issues, and users are now redirected to the Firefox version. We haven't observed issues with the Firefox crawler yet.

Could you share more details about your specific use case? Understanding the exact scenarios where Cheerio and Firefox fail will help us suggest the best alternative or a workaround.

In the meantime, you can revert to an earlier version of the Actor crawler using the versioning options in your run settings (the Chrome+Playwright crawler type was deprecated in 0.3.33). Check out the changelog to pick the best version for you.

Cheers!

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2.8k monthly users
434 stars
99.9% runs succeeded
2.9 days response time
Created in Mar 2023
Modified 3 days ago

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