Alchemy Lab

Introduction

Overview of Alchemy Lab documentation, features and usage

Welcome to the Alchemy Lab documentation.

Alchemy Lab is a web content extraction tool under Alchemy Lab, converting web pages into clean Markdown format, designed for AI applications and data processing scenarios.

Core Features

  • Web Scraping - Extract content from single or multiple URLs, with support for dynamically rendered pages
  • Multi-page Crawling - Recursively discover and scrape entire websites from a starting URL
  • PDF Export - Export web pages to PDF format
  • AI Enhancement - Optional AI optimization to automatically clean and format extracted content

Technical Highlights

Feature Description
Browser Engine Puppeteer for SPA dynamic rendering
Smart Engine Selection Automatically detects page type and selects optimal scraping strategy
High Performance Supports concurrent scraping with built-in caching
Open Source MIT licensed, free to deploy and modify

Quick Start

# Clone the project
git clone https://cnb.cool/ai-alchemy-factory/alchemy-lite.git
cd alchemy-lite

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Start the backend
pnpm dev

# Start the frontend (in another terminal)
cd ui && pnpm dev

Visit http://localhost:9002 to access the web interface.

Next Steps