webclaw/CHANGELOG.md
Valerio c99ec684fa Initial release: webclaw v0.1.0 — web content extraction for LLMs
CLI + MCP server for extracting clean, structured content from any URL.
6 Rust crates, 10 MCP tools, TLS fingerprinting, 5 output formats.

MIT Licensed | https://webclaw.io
2026-03-23 18:31:11 +01:00

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Changelog

All notable changes to webclaw are documented here. Format follows Keep a Changelog.

[0.1.0] — 2026-03-18

First public release. Full-featured web content extraction toolkit for LLMs.

Core Extraction

  • Readability-style content scoring with text density, semantic tags, and link density penalties
  • Exact CSS class token noise filtering with body-force fallback for SPAs
  • HTML → markdown conversion with URL resolution, image alt text, srcset optimization
  • 9-step LLM text optimization pipeline (67% token reduction vs raw HTML)
  • JSON data island extraction (React, Next.js, Contentful CMS)
  • YouTube transcript extraction (title, channel, views, duration, description)
  • Lazy-loaded image detection (data-src, data-lazy-src, data-original)
  • Brand identity extraction (name, colors, fonts, logos, OG image)
  • Content change tracking / diff engine
  • CSS selector filtering (include/exclude)

Fetching & Crawling

  • TLS fingerprint impersonation via Impit (Chrome 142, Firefox 144, random mode)
  • BFS same-origin crawler with configurable depth, concurrency, and delay
  • Sitemap.xml and robots.txt discovery
  • Batch multi-URL concurrent extraction
  • Per-request proxy rotation from pool file
  • Reddit JSON API and LinkedIn post extractors

LLM Integration

  • Provider chain: Ollama (local-first) → OpenAI → Anthropic
  • JSON schema extraction (structured data from pages)
  • Natural language prompt extraction
  • Page summarization with configurable sentence count

PDF

  • PDF text extraction via pdf-extract
  • Auto-detection by Content-Type header

MCP Server

  • 8 tools: scrape, crawl, map, batch, extract, summarize, diff, brand
  • stdio transport for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any MCP client
  • Smart Fetch: local extraction first, cloud API fallback

CLI

  • 4 output formats: markdown, JSON, plain text, LLM-optimized
  • CSS selector filtering, crawling, sitemap discovery
  • Brand extraction, content diffing, LLM features
  • Browser profile selection, proxy support, stdin/file input

Infrastructure

  • Docker multi-stage build with Ollama sidecar
  • Deploy script for Hetzner VPS