PocketFlow-Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge/docs/Crawl4AI/index.md

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# Tutorial: Crawl4AI

`Crawl4AI` is a flexible Python library for *asynchronously crawling websites* and *extracting structured content*, specifically designed for **AI use cases**.
You primarily interact with the `AsyncWebCrawler`, which acts as the main coordinator. You provide it with URLs and a `CrawlerRunConfig` detailing *how* to crawl (e.g., using specific strategies for fetching, scraping, filtering, and extraction).
It can handle single pages or multiple URLs concurrently using a `BaseDispatcher`, optionally crawl deeper by following links via `DeepCrawlStrategy`, manage `CacheMode`, and apply `RelevantContentFilter` before finally returning a `CrawlResult` containing all the gathered data.


**Source Repository:** [https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/9c58e4ce2ee025debd3f36bf213330bd72b90e46/crawl4ai](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/9c58e4ce2ee025debd3f36bf213330bd72b90e46/crawl4ai)

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A0["AsyncWebCrawler"]
    A1["CrawlerRunConfig"]
    A2["AsyncCrawlerStrategy"]
    A3["ContentScrapingStrategy"]
    A4["ExtractionStrategy"]
    A5["CrawlResult"]
    A6["BaseDispatcher"]
    A7["DeepCrawlStrategy"]
    A8["CacheContext / CacheMode"]
    A9["RelevantContentFilter"]
    A0 -- "Configured by" --> A1
    A0 -- "Uses Fetching Strategy" --> A2
    A0 -- "Uses Scraping Strategy" --> A3
    A0 -- "Uses Extraction Strategy" --> A4
    A0 -- "Produces" --> A5
    A0 -- "Uses Dispatcher for `arun_m..." --> A6
    A0 -- "Uses Caching Logic" --> A8
    A6 -- "Calls Crawler's `arun`" --> A0
    A1 -- "Specifies Deep Crawl Strategy" --> A7
    A7 -- "Processes Links from" --> A5
    A3 -- "Provides Cleaned HTML to" --> A9
    A1 -- "Specifies Content Filter" --> A9
```