# Crawl4AI Self-Hosted API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/crawl4ai/crawl4ai-docker/  
**Provider:** Crawl4AI — https://apis.io/providers/crawl4ai/  
**Base URL:** http://{host}:11235  
**Documentation:** https://docs.crawl4ai.com/core/self-hosting/

Crawl4AI Self-Hosted API is one of 3 APIs that [Crawl4AI](https://apis.io/providers/crawl4ai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include AI Automation, Web Crawling, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.crawl4ai.com/core/self-hosting/
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/main/deploy/docker
- **ContainerImage** — https://hub.docker.com/r/unclecode/crawl4ai

## Other Crawl4AI APIs (2)

- [Crawl4AI Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/crawl4ai/crawl4ai/)
- [Crawl4AI Cloud v1 API](https://apis.io/apis/crawl4ai/crawl4ai-v1/)

## Tags

AI Automation, Web Crawling, Open-Source

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