Crawl4AI

Crawl4AI Self-Hosted API

The Apache-2.0 API server that ships inside the crawl4ai project and the unclecode/crawl4ai Docker image, serving on port 11235 on infrastructure the operator runs. Exposes /crawl, /crawl/stream, /crawl/job, /md, /llm, /screenshot, /pdf, /html, /token, /health, /artifacts/{id}, /hooks/info, a monitoring API and an MCP bridge at /mcp/sse, /mcp/ws and /mcp/schema. Since 0.9.0 it is secure-by-default: authentication on, loopback bind without a token, and a strict request trust boundary.

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Documentation
https://docs.crawl4ai.com/core/self-hosting/

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SourceCode
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/main/deploy/docker
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ContainerImage
https://hub.docker.com/r/unclecode/crawl4ai

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: crawl4ai:crawl4ai-docker
name: Crawl4AI Self-Hosted API
description: 'The Apache-2.0 API server that ships inside the crawl4ai project and the unclecode/crawl4ai
  Docker image, serving on port 11235 on infrastructure the operator runs. Exposes /crawl, /crawl/stream,
  /crawl/job, /md, /llm, /screenshot, /pdf, /html, /token, /health, /artifacts/{id}, /hooks/info, a monitoring
  API and an MCP bridge at /mcp/sse, /mcp/ws and /mcp/schema. Since 0.9.0 it is secure-by-default: authentication
  on, loopback bind without a token, and a strict request trust boundary.'
humanURL: https://docs.crawl4ai.com/core/self-hosting/
baseURL: http://{host}:11235
baseURLNote: Templated on purpose — this server runs on the customer's own host. Crawl4AI operates no
  instance of it.
tags:
- AI Automation
- Web Crawling
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- AI Automation
- Web Crawling
- Open Source
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.crawl4ai.com/core/self-hosting/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/main/deploy/docker
- type: ContainerImage
  url: https://hub.docker.com/r/unclecode/crawl4ai