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rs-trafilatura Meets spider-rs: Finally, Crawling That Doesn't Suck

Spider-rs was a beast for async crawling in Rust, but extraction? Meh. rs-trafilatura changes that—delivering clean text, metadata, and confidence scores on the fly. Here's how it slots in perfectly.

Rust code integrating rs-trafilatura extraction with spider-rs crawler

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • rs-trafilatura integrates smoothly with spider-rs for smart, scored content extraction.
  • Stream pages as they arrive—no waiting on full crawls.
  • Quality scores and page-type detection beat spider's basic tools for diverse sites.
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