deep-crawl

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name: deep-crawl description: Recursively crawl websites using headless Chrome. Triggers: crawl, scrape website, 爬取, crawl site, deep crawl, website content. version: 1.0.0 author: octos requires_bins: google-chrome always: false

deep_crawl

Overview

The deep_crawl tool recursively crawls a website using a headless Chrome browser via the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). It renders JavaScript, follows same-origin links via BFS, extracts text content from each page, and saves results to disk. This is ideal for crawling JS-rendered SPAs, documentation sites, and any site that requires a full browser environment.

Requirements

• Google Chrome or Chromium must be installed and available in PATH, or at a standard system location.
  • macOS: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
  • Linux: google-chrome, google-chrome-stable, or chromium-browser

Usage

Call the deep_crawl tool with a starting URL. The crawler will follow same-origin links up to the specified depth and page limits.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	yes	--	The seed URL to start crawling from
max_depth	integer	no	3	Maximum link-following depth (1-10)
max_pages	integer	no	50	Maximum number of pages to crawl (1-200)
path_prefix	string	no	--	Only follow links whose path starts with this prefix

Example

{
  "url": "https://docs.example.com/guide/",
  "max_depth": 3,
  "max_pages": 30,
  "path_prefix": "/guide/"
}

Output

The tool returns a JSON object on stdout:

{
  "output": "# Deep Crawl: https://docs.example.com/guide/\nCrawled 12 pages ...\n\n## Sitemap\n1. [depth=0] https://docs.example.com/guide/ (OK)\n...",
  "success": true
}

The output field contains:

• A sitemap listing all crawled pages with their depth and status
• A content preview (first ~2000 characters) for each page
• The directory path where full page contents are saved as .md files

Results are saved to a research directory named crawl-<hostname>/ under the current working directory. Each page is saved as a numbered markdown file (e.g., 000_index.md, 001_docs_install.md).

Behavior Details

• Only http:// and https:// URLs are allowed
• Only same-origin links are followed (no cross-domain crawling)
• The crawler uses stealth techniques to avoid bot detection (custom user-agent, webdriver flag removal)
• Pages that appear empty or bot-blocked are retried with longer wait times
• URL fragments are stripped and trailing slashes normalized to avoid duplicate visits
• Private/internal IP addresses are blocked (SSRF protection)