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    {
      "Title": "renderJs: false appears to still use Lightpanda when Lightpanda is configured",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhen a Lightpanda container is configured in Docker Compose, `renderJs: false` appears to produce the same result as `renderJs: true`.\n\nBased on my understanding, I would expect `renderJs: false` to skip JavaScript rendering entirely and return the raw HTML result.\n\n## Environment\n\n- Self-hosted FastCRW\n- Docker Compose with a Lightpanda container\n\n## Request\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST http://localhost:4050/v2/scrape \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/346",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-22T13:08:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Missing --user-data-dir: Chromium profile dirs leak into %TEMP% (104 dirs / 1.5 GB in ~3 days), orphaned Chrome processes never reaped",
      "Excerpt": "### Summary\n\n`crw-mcp` launches its headless Chromium **without `--user-data-dir`**. When that flag is absent, Chromium creates a fallback profile directory in the OS temp folder named `HeadlessChrome<pid><timestamp>`. It is never cleaned up, and the spawned browser processes are not reaped when the MCP server exits.\n\nTwo consequences: the disk fills up quickly, and orphaned browser trees keep running.\n\n### Environment\n\n- `crw-mcp`: **0.35.1** (npm, launched via `npx crw-mcp`)\n- OS: Windows…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/594",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T11:09:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Firecrawl /v2 Support",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe official `firecrawl-py` SDK (v2+) routes all requests to `/v2/scrape`, `/v2/search`, etc. crw currently only implements `/v1/*` endpoints, causing all requests from the current SDK to return 404.\n\n## Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Run crw self-hosted (tested on v0.10.0)\n2. Set `FIRECRAWL_API_URL=http://crw:3000` and `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=local`\n3. Use the official `firecrawl-py` SDK (v4.x):\n```python\n   from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp\n   app = FirecrawlApp(api_url=\"http://crw:3000\",…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/62",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-29T08:33:07.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 4,
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    {
      "Title": "Scrape does not work with crw-mcp",
      "Excerpt": "Scrape does not work with crw-mcp.exe, every time the error is \"Target unavailable: could not be reached...\", but map and crawl works\n\nwith crw.exe Scrape works\n\nWin64  (without cloud api key)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-15T00:21:16.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Crw mcp chrome not found windows",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n \nOn Windows 11, `crw-mcp` (embedded mode) reports that no browser was found and disables JS rendering, even though Google Chrome is installed and reachable. The renderer falls back to HTTP-only mode, which breaks scraping of any JavaScript-rendered / SPA page.\n \n## Environment\n \n| | |\n|---|---|\n| OS | Windows 11 |\n| Package | `crw-mcp` |\n| Version | `v0.24.0` (embedded mode) |\n| Invocation | `npx crw-mcp` |\n| Browser | Google Chrome, installed at `C:\\Program…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/280",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T10:28:20.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
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    {
      "Title": "security: apply SSRF protection and path validation to browse mode",
      "Excerpt": "## Human speaking here\n\nHi there. Thanks for this project. I was asking AI to perform a security assessment on it to be able to fully trust it. The review came out positive overall, with this as the most actionable recommendation. I don't have the full context to really form an opinion on this, so I'm reporting it as is in case you might find it helpful.\n\n## Summary\n\nThe browse mode MCP server (`crw browse`) currently has weaker input validation than the REST API server. Two gaps were…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/61",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-25T08:35:59.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
      "Reporter": "Contributor",
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    {
      "Title": "JSON schema error at #/properties/actions/items: schema must be an object",
      "Excerpt": "# Symptom\n\nAny chat-completion request to a llama.cpp endpoint that includes the crw `script` tool in its\n`tools` list fails with:\n\n```\nHTTP 500\n{\"error\":{\"code\":500,\"message\":\"JSON schema error at #/properties/actions/items: schema must be an object\",\"type\":\"server_error\"}}\n```\n\nThe whole request fails (500) so any agent session that carries the\nfull crw tool list cannot talk to the model at all while the schema is present.\n\n# Root cause\n\nThe `script` tool (exposed by **both** `crw` and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/578",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-23T11:57:33.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "MCP search tools: mismatch between outputSchema and server response make call fails",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug\nWhen the agent call the search tool, response always fails:\n```\nMCP error -32602: Structured content does not match the tool's output schema: data/data must be object\n```\n\n### Root Cause\nI did some digging and I think I found the issue. The `outputSchema` declared for the `crw_search` tool requires `data` to be an object containing a `results` field. However, when i send request directly to server. the response returns `data` as an array.\n\n**crw_search** schema - in…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/391",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T04:18:10.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
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    {
      "Title": "npm launcher cannot start on Windows behind restricted networks: win32 has no npm fast path, GitHub release download fails (ECONNRESET/ETIMEDOUT)",
      "Excerpt": "### Summary\n\nOn Windows, `npx crw-mcp` (v0.37.1) **cannot start at all** behind a restricted network. The npm package is a JS launcher that resolves the native binary in three steps; on win32 the first two always fail, so it must download from GitHub Releases — and that download is exactly what gets blocked.\n\nThe launcher's own stderr:\n\n```\ncrw-mcp: could not locate or download the win32-x64 binary.\n  could not fetch SHA256SUMS for v0.37.1: read ECONNRESET\n  (retry) could not fetch SHA256SUMS…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/597",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T16:13:03.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 1 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2025-11-25",
      "Excerpt": "Running `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test` against `npx -y crw-mcp@latest` on MCP spec revision **2025-11-25**, when a client explicitly requests the 2025-11-25 revision at handshake, the server settles on `2025-06-18` instead — a revision outside the negotiated window — so downstream capability checks can't be verified against the revision actually under test.\n\n## Conformance report\n\n# MCP 2025-11-25 conformance report\n\n**Verdict: not conformant** — 1 requirement violated.\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Target |…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/466",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:18:26.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 7 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28",
      "Excerpt": "Running `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test` against `npx -y crw-mcp@latest` on MCP spec revision **2026-07-28**, the server does not implement `server/discover` (returns \"method not found\"), and when offered the 2025-11-25 revision at handshake it settles on 2025-06-18 instead, outside the negotiated window.\n\n## Conformance report\n\n# MCP 2026-07-28 conformance report\n\n**Verdict: not conformant** — 7 requirements violated.\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Target | `npx -y crw-mcp@latest` |\n| Transport | stdio |\n|…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/465",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:18:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 1 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2025-11-25",
      "Excerpt": "Companion issue to the 2026-07-28 report filed separately (results differ per revision, so filing individually rather than merging). When `crw-mcp` is tested against the 2025-11-25 revision, the one concrete violation is that the server always negotiates down to `2025-06-18` at handshake regardless of what the client offers, even though it also advertises `2025-11-25` and `2026-07-28` support. That mismatch then makes 13 further checks unverifiable, since the suite can't test…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/464",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:18:05.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    },
    {
      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 7 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28",
      "Excerpt": "When `crw-mcp` (via `npx -y crw-mcp@latest`) is tested against the 2026-07-28 MCP spec revision with `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test`, the server does not implement `server/discover` (returns `-32601 method not found: server/discover`), and separately always negotiates down to `2025-06-18` at handshake regardless of the version a client offers — outside its own advertised supported window of (2026-07-28, 2025-11-25). Since `server/discover` never resolves, 22 further checks that depend on it can't be…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/463",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:18:04.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "MCP extract tools: outputSchema mismatches server response — crw_extract and crw_check_extract_status always fail client validation",
      "Excerpt": "> **Note: This bug report was generated by an AI agent (Sisyphus, running via OpenCode) as part of diagnosing a broken MCP integration. The analysis is based on reading the crw v0.25.2 source code and testing against a live self-hosted instance. All technical claims below are verifiable against the source.**\n\n## Bug\n\nBoth extract-related MCP tools declare `outputSchema` values that don't match what the server actually returns, causing every extract call to fail MCP client-side schema…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/318",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-18T15:12:16.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Bug]: Wrong default searxng_url in config.docker.toml causes search tool to be unavailable",
      "Excerpt": "**Description**\nThe default `config.docker.toml` ships with `searxng_url = \"http://searxng-internal:8080\"` under `[search]`. That hostname doesn't match the service name used in the reference Docker Compose setup, so the search health check fails and the `crw_search` MCP tool is never registered. The error message points users toward setting `CRW_SEARCH__SEARXNG_URL` env var, but that variable isn't set anywhere in the provided compose config -- leaving no obvious path forward.\n\n**Steps to…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/90",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-04T17:48:28.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "MCP Server `crw` — `outputSchema` mismatch: declares structured output, returns text-only payload",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nHi! The `crw` MCP server declares `outputSchema` (structured output) for its tools (e.g. `crw_search`), but the actual response bundles all data into a **plain string** inside `data.text` instead of placing it in the declared structured fields. This causes failures in MCP clients that strictly validate responses against the declared schema.\n\n## Affected tools\n\n- `crw_search`\n- (potentially `crw_crawl`, `crw_check_crawl_status`)\n\n## What the server **declares** (outputSchema)…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/89",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-04T16:12:13.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Unable to force JS rendering, the crawler cannot fetch the webpage at https://baidu.com.",
      "Excerpt": "# I tested it with Dify MCP.\n```\n{\"crw_scrape\": {\"url\": \"https://baidu.com\"}}\n\n{\"crw_scrape\": \"{\\\"markdown\\\": \\\"\\\", \\\"metadata\\\": {\\\"description\\\": null, \\\"elapsedMs\\\": 610, \\\"renderedWith\\\": \\\"http\\\", \\\"sourceURL\\\": \\\"https://baidu.com\\\", \\\"statusCode\\\": 200, \\\"title\\\": null}}\"}\n```\n\n# config.default.toml\n\n```\n[server]*\nhost = \"0.0.0.0\"\nport = 3000\nrequest_timeout_secs = 120\nrate_limit_rps = 10              # Max requests/second (global). 0 = unlimited.\n\n[renderer]\nmode = \"chrome\"…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fastcrw/crw/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-23T10:33:23.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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