
Arachne
Jun 03, 2026
First tests with Crawl4AI — Sidecar and Docker
Experimenting with Crawl4AI in Arachne: Docker Sidecar, Python SDK, comparison with Trafilatura, and the decision to use automatic fallback between engines.
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Experimenting with Crawl4AI in Arachne: Docker Sidecar, Python SDK, comparison with Trafilatura, and the decision to use automatic fallback between engines.

Tired of scrapers that broke out of nowhere and expensive third-party services, I decided to build my own data extraction platform.

The real story of how a 200-line Python scraper became a platform with 740+ files, RAG, visual pipelines and 36 ReAct tools.