Crawlberg

Turn any website into clean, structured data. Point Crawlberg at a URL and get back Markdown, metadata, and links — from a single page or a whole site — in the language you already use.

What and Why?

You need data that lives on the web, and raw HTML is not it. Crawlberg does the crawling, scraping, and cleanup end-to-end: it fetches pages, follows links, converts each one to Markdown, and hands you structured metadata (titles, links, images, social-card and JSON-LD data) — so you skip the parsing and go straight to the content.

It runs from a single Rust core with identical results across 14 language bindings, and it handles the awkward parts for you: JavaScript-heavy pages fall back to a real headless browser, bot filters are detected and worked around, robots and sitemaps are respected, requests are throttled per domain, and requests to private or internal addresses are refused by default. Drive it from your code, an AI agent, a REST service, or the CLI.

Every part of the pipeline is a trait you can swap — the crawl frontier, rate limiter, storage, event stream, and content filters — so you can plug in your own behavior. Managed extras like proxy pools, tuned bot-evasion, authenticated sessions, scheduling, and billing live in xberg-enterprise.

Features

Feature	Description
Structured extraction	Text, metadata, links, images, assets, JSON-LD, Open Graph, hreflang, favicons, headings, response headers
Markdown conversion	Clean Markdown with citations, document structure, and fit-content mode
Concurrent crawling	Depth-first, breadth-first, or best-first traversal with configurable depth, page limits, and concurrency
14 language bindings	Rust, Python, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, Kotlin (Android), C#, PHP, Elixir, Dart, Swift, Zig, and WebAssembly
Smart filtering	BM25 relevance scoring, URL include/exclude patterns, robots.txt compliance, sitemap discovery
Browser rendering	Optional headless browser for JavaScript-heavy SPAs with WAF detection and bypass
Batch & streaming	Scrape or crawl hundreds of URLs concurrently; real-time crawl events via async streams
SSRF-safe by default	Refuses loopback, private, link-local, and cloud-metadata addresses; opt out via env var or CrawlConfig
Auth & rate limiting	HTTP Basic, Bearer, and custom-header auth with cookie jars; per-domain request throttling
MCP server & REST API	Model Context Protocol integration for AI agents plus an HTTP server with OpenAPI spec

Supported Platforms

Precompiled binaries for Linux (x86_64/aarch64), macOS (ARM64), and Windows (x64) across every binding. See the platform support reference for the full matrix.

Quick Start

Language Packages

pip install crawlberg

See Python README for full documentation.

npm install @xberg-io/crawlberg

See Node.js README for full documentation.

cargo add crawlberg

See Rust README for full documentation.

go get github.com/xberg-io/crawlberg/packages/go

See Go README for full documentation.

Available on Maven Central as io.xberg.crawlberg:crawlberg. See Java README for the dependency snippet and current version.

dotnet add package Crawlberg

See C# README for full documentation.

gem install crawlberg

See Ruby README for full documentation.

composer require xberg-io/crawlberg

See PHP README for full documentation.

Add {:crawlberg, "~> 0.3"} to your mix.exs dependencies. See Elixir README for full documentation.

dart pub add crawlberg

See Dart README for full documentation.

Available on Maven Central as io.xberg.crawlberg.android:crawlberg-android. See Kotlin README for the dependency snippet and current version.

Add via Swift Package Manager. See Swift README for full documentation.

See Zig README for installation and usage.

npm install @xberg-io/crawlberg-wasm

See WebAssembly README for full documentation.

C header + shared library from GitHub Releases. See FFI crate for full documentation.

cargo install crawlberg-cli

brew install xberg-io/tap/crawlberg

See CLI README for full documentation.

AI Coding Assistants

Install the Crawlberg plugin from the xberg-io/plugins marketplace. It ships the Crawlberg agent skills (site crawling, HTML→Markdown scraping, headless-Chrome fallback) plus the crawlberg MCP server, and works with every major coding agent — expand your harness below.

/plugin marketplace add xberg-io/plugins
/plugin install crawlberg@xberg

/plugins add https://github.com/xberg-io/plugins

Then search for crawlberg and select Install Plugin.

Settings → Plugins → Add from URL → https://github.com/xberg-io/plugins, then select crawlberg.

gemini extensions install https://github.com/xberg-io/plugins

droid plugin marketplace add https://github.com/xberg-io/plugins
droid plugin install crawlberg@xberg

copilot plugin marketplace add https://github.com/xberg-io/plugins
copilot plugin install crawlberg@xberg

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