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Rust-Powered rs-trafilatura Supercharges Crawl4AI: 0.910 F1 on Benchmarks

Crawl4AI's default Markdown scraper is fine, but rs-trafilatura? It classifies pages, scores quality, and hits 0.910 F1 on tests. Here's why this Rust swap might actually stick.

Code screenshot showing rs-trafilatura output in Crawl4AI with quality score and page type

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • rs-trafilatura boosts Crawl4AI F1 to 0.910 on benchmarks with page-type awareness.
  • Quality scores enable smart hybrid pipelines—heuristics first, LLM fallback for 8% edges.
  • Rust speed + PyO3 integration means no subprocess overhead in async crawls.
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