A small Microsoft utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files into Markdown that is easy to hand to a language model.
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crawl4ai
An open-source Python crawler: it visits pages with a real browser and returns clean Markdown for LLMs. Runs locally, in Docker or as a cloud service.
Who it is for
For Python developers collecting website data for RAG and agents.
How to start
- Install:
pip install -U crawl4ai. - Install the browser once with
crawl4ai-setup, then verify withcrawl4ai-doctor. - Run
AsyncWebCrawler().arun(url=...)from the README example and printresult.markdown.
Steps are taken from the README. Check the current version in the repository before running them.
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Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.
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