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🤖 Setup Crawl4AI — LLM-Ready Web Crawler and Scraper

Deploy Crawl4AI on Ubuntu with Docker — a web crawler that renders pages in a real browser and returns clean Markdown ready for LLMs and RAG pipelines, on port 11235.

⚠️ This script is provided for demo and testing purposes only. Not intended for production use.

📦 Resources & Setup Scripts

Grab the automated bash script from GitHub to follow along with the video.

Automated install script — one command deploys Crawl4AI on port 11235 with a playground UI. First start initializes a headless browser, so allow a minute.
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Quick Install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/ai/crawl4ai/crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh
./crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh

Tutorial Steps

1 Download the Script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/ai/crawl4ai/crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh

2 Make it Executable

chmod +x crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh

3 Run the Installer

./crawl4ai-ubuntu.sh

4 Open the Playground or Call the API

http://your-server-ip:11235/playground

Ports Used

PortPurpose
11235Crawl4AI REST API and playground at /playground

Overview

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