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Features:
- Django REST API backend
- Multi-strategy web scraping system (Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Firecrawl)
- Anti-detection features (proxy rotation, user-agent rotation)
- Data export functionality (JSON, CSV, TXT)
- Business and CrawledPage models
- Enhanced crawling service with fallback mechanisms

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Chat Backend - Clean Website Scraper

A clean, simple Django application for scraping websites using Firecrawl AI.

Features

  • Simple Site Management: Add websites to scrape
  • Modern Firecrawl Integration: Uses the latest extract API for structured data
  • Clean Architecture: ~150 lines total instead of 718 lines of legacy code
  • Live Status Updates: Real-time scraping progress
  • Structured Data: Extracts company name, description, and content

Quick Start

  1. Install Dependencies

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    
  2. Configure Environment

    # Edit .env file
    FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-actual-api-key
    
  3. Setup Database

    python manage.py migrate
    
  4. Run Server

    python manage.py runserver
    
  5. Visit Application

Architecture

Clean & Simple

  • Models: Site + ScrapedContent (simple relationship)
  • Service: Single ScrapingService class (~80 lines)
  • Views: Clean view functions with proper separation
  • Templates: Responsive, minimal UI

Key Files

  • scraping/models.py - Simple data models
  • scraping/services.py - Clean Firecrawl integration
  • scraping/views.py - Business logic separation
  • scraping/templates/ - Clean HTML templates

How It Works

  1. Add Site: Enter website name and URL
  2. Scrape: Uses Firecrawl extract API with schema
  3. Extract: AI extracts company name, description, content
  4. Store: Saves structured data for later use

Next Steps

This foundation supports your original plan:

  • Website scraping (completed)
  • 🔄 Content management (PDF, videos, forms)
  • 🔄 AI Q&A generation
  • 🔄 Export to business.json

Benefits Over Previous Version

  • 80% less code (150 vs 718 lines)
  • Actually works with current Firecrawl API
  • Easy to extend for additional features
  • Clean separation of concerns
  • Proper error handling
  • Security best practices

Built from scratch to be professional and maintainable.