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crawl4ai

Py Import Time Network Call: Network call (urllib/requests/httpx/http.client) at install or import time.

Why PkgRadar flagged 0.8.9

Severity	Signal	Evidence
high	Py Import Time Network Call	Network call (urllib/requests/httpx/http.client) at install or import time. · crawl4ai-0.8.9/crawl4ai/processors/pdf/__init__.py

Scanned versions

Version	Verdict	Score	Scanned (UTC)
`0.8.9`	High risk	8	2026-06-04
`0.8.8`	High risk	8	2026-06-04
`0.8.7`	High risk	8	2026-06-01

Block this in CI

PkgRadar gates crawl4ai (and every other dependency) before it merges. One line in your pipeline:

pkgradar gate --ecosystem pypi crawl4ai==0.8.9