🛡️ Playtrafi

The undetected stealth web scraper & clean Markdown extractor for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents.

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⚡ What is Playtrafi?

Playtrafi is a lightweight, high-performance web crawling and content extraction engine designed specifically for LLMs and AI pipelines.

It bridges the gap between low-level drivers and high-level scrapers by coupling Patchright (the C++ patched Chromium engine that eliminates automated telemetry leakages) with Trafilatura (the gold standard for algorithmic boilerplate removal and pristine Markdown conversion).

🎯 Why Playtrafi?

Feature	Crawl4AI	Firecrawl (Self-hosted)	Playtrafi
Stealth Engine	❌ Standard Playwright (CDP leaked)	❌ Blocked without paid SaaS proxy	✅ Native Patchright Stealth
Boilerplate Stripping	⚠️ Heuristic regex / CSS	✅ Full DOM clean	✅ Trafilatura Gold Standard
Framework Data	⚠️ Partial regex	✅	✅ Native Next.js (__NEXT_DATA__) & Schema.org JSON-LD
Dependencies	❌ Heavy (PyTorch, Transformers, ML)	❌ Complex (Node, Redis, BullMQ)	✅ Ultra-lean (< 15MB pure Python)
Throughput	⚠️ Process-level restart	⚠️ Queue bottleneck	✅ Browser Context Pool (>5x throughput)
Failure Tolerance	❌ Crashes on timeout	❌	✅ Automatic fast HTTP fallback
Deployment	Heavy multi-GB image	Multi-container stack	✅ Single lightweight Docker container

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🚀 Quick Example

from playtrafi import Playtrafi

# 1-line instant stealth crawl to pristine Markdown
result = Playtrafi.crawl("https://news.ycombinator.com")

print("Title:", result.title)
print(result.markdown[:300])

# Structure-aware LLM chunking
chunks = result.chunk(max_tokens=500)
print(f"Generated {len(chunks)} LLM chunks.")