What is rs-trafilatura?

Rust-based web extractor spotting page types, scoring quality, outputting clean text/Markdown/metadata. Beats heuristics with smarts.

How do I use rs-trafilatura with Firecrawl?

Install packages, set formats=["html"], call extract_firecrawl_result(result). Boom — structured gold.

Will rs-trafilatura replace Firecrawl's Markdown?

Nah, complements. Use scores to pick: high quality? rs-md. Sketchy? Firecrawl fallback.

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rs-trafilatura + Firecrawl: The Web Scraping Duo That Thinks Like a Journalist

Imagine scraping the web not as a blunt hammer, but a scalpel with confidence ratings. rs-trafilatura supercharges Firecrawl, turning raw HTML into gold-standard extracts.

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Code terminal displaying rs-trafilatura extraction results from Firecrawl scrape

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rs-trafilatura adds page-type smarts and quality scores to Firecrawl's JS-proof scraping. 𝕏
Perfect for RAG/AI data pipelines — cleaner extracts mean better models. 𝕏
Batch scales effortlessly; tweak precision/recall for your needs. 𝕏

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