What problem does it solve?
This Skill fetches and extracts content from known URLs, documents, and videos to produce clean text or structured data suitable for downstream analysis and LLM processing.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Single-page extraction: scrape a URL and return clean markdown or structured JSON fields such as product name, price, and availability.
- Deep site crawling: crawl documentation or site sections with configurable max_depth, max_pages, domain filtering, and include/exclude patterns.
- Multimedia and file support: extract YouTube transcripts and metadata, and convert PDFs, Word, Excel, and PPT files into markdown.
- LLM-powered extraction: perform semantic extraction into typed JSON schemas or entity lists when data is scattered across a page.
- Context and scale management: stream results, render JS, handle anti-bot escalation automatically, and write large outputs to disk via output_path to avoid context overflow.
- Self-hosting option: run as a Docker service for production use and connect via MCP SSE for high-volume or privacy-sensitive workloads.
Quick Start
Use the crawl4ai skill to extract product name, price, and availability as JSON from https://example.com/product.