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          <div class="badge-pill">πŸ” Layout Sanitization</div>
          <h1 style="font-size: 2.25rem; color: #0f172a; font-weight: 800; margin-bottom: 0.75rem;">SLM Web Scraper</h1>
          <p style="font-size: 1.05rem; color: #334155; line-height: 1.65; font-weight: 500; margin: 0;">Extract structured JSON directly from dirty, obfuscated HTML layouts offline using BeautifulSoup and Phi-3.5-mini.</p>
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        <h2>πŸš€ Overview &amp; Capabilities</h2>
        <p>The SLM Web Scraper parses raw HTML strings, stripping scripts, styles, duplicate nav tags, and ads. The sanitized flat content is compiled locally into structured formats using target JSON schemas.</p>
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          <h2>πŸ’» Installation</h2>
          <p>Install the local CPU-optimized package using pip:</p>
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              <pre><code><span class="comment"># Install from PyPI</span>
pip install slm-web-scraper</code></pre>
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        <h2>πŸ€– Truly Agentic Workflow</h2>
        <p>The Web Scraper filters raw DOM elements to produce clean extractions:</p>
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          <li><strong>DOM Pruning:</strong> Automatically strips scripts, styles, metadata tags, and ad headers using BeautifulSoup.</li>
          <li><strong>Visual Image OCR:</strong> Identifies image tags (<code>&lt;img&gt;</code>) on the page, downloads them, and runs them through the local <strong>SLMVisionParser</strong> to generate natural language text descriptions, replacing the tags with the descriptions.</li>
          <li><strong>Whitespaces Compacting:</strong> Collapses contiguous whitespace blocks into single space delimiters.</li>
          <li><strong>Schema Alignment:</strong> Instructs the local Phi-3.5 model to match and structure the sanitized text into clean JSON.</li>
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        <h2>⚑ CPU Performance Tuning Guidelines</h2>
        <p>Follow these configuration rules to maximize scraping speed on standard hardware:</p>
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          <li><strong>Sanitize First:</strong> Always clean webpage source code before parsing. Running raw HTML through the model increases token count and latency.</li>
          <li><strong>Memory Management:</strong> Clear page memory scopes after heavy parsing cycles to keep footprint under 1.5 GB RAM.</li>
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        <h2>🎯 Accuracy Improvement Tips</h2>
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          <strong>Tip for Layout Cleaning:</strong> Condensing tables or pricing matrices into columnar string lists (e.g. <code>"Item 1 | Price 1"</code>) preserves formatting structure for the model, improving data extraction accuracy.
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          <strong>Keep Schema Flat:</strong> Keep the target schema flat. Deep nesting can confuse smaller models, causing schema validation errors.
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        <h2>API Reference</h2>
        <h3>`SLMWebScraper` Initialization</h3>
        <pre><code class="language-python">from slm_web_scraper.web_scraper import SLMWebScraper

scraper = SLMWebScraper()</code></pre>
        
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            <tr><td>model_path</td><td>str</td><td>Local path to Phi-3.5 weights. Defaults to "../../models/phi-3.5-mini-instruct-onnx".</td></tr>
                        <tr><td>system_prompt</td><td>str | None</td><td>Optional custom system prompt instructions overriding the default template.</td></tr>
              <tr><td>user_input</td><td>str | None</td><td>Optional additional user-supplied target parameters or variables.</td></tr>
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        <h3>`scrape_url` Method</h3>
        <p>Fetches a URL, filters out header/footer menus, dropdown lists, sidebars, and ads, and automatically parses tables and image content:</p>

        <h4>Hybrid Visual Scraping (Tables & Images)</h4>
        <p>This example scrapes the vision parser documentation page <code>https://www.slmagents.ai/vision_parser.html</code>, describing its parameters table and flowchart image automatically:</p>
        <pre><code class="language-python">from slm_web_scraper.web_scraper import SLMWebScraper

scraper = SLMWebScraper()

# Scrapes page and converts tables/images to descriptions automatically
clean_text = scraper.scrape_url("https://www.slmagents.ai/vision_parser.html")
print(clean_text)</code></pre>

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          <strong>Cleaned Webpage Text Output with Visual Descriptions:</strong><br>
          <pre><code>SLM Vision Parser | Documentation
Overview
The SLM Vision Parser uses the sequence-to-sequence Florence-2-large model to translate image structures directly.

API Reference
`SLMVisionParser` Initialization
from slm_vision_parser.vision_parser import SLMVisionParser
parser = SLMVisionParser()

[Table Description: The HTML table represents the constructor parameter configuration for SLMVisionParser, detailing the "model_path" parameter of type string (str), which references the local directory containing pre-downloaded checkpoints and defaults to "../../models/florence-2-large".]

`parse_image` Method
Run coordinate mappings or caption generation by supplying task tags. Below is the input flowchart diagram processed by the vision model:
[Image Description: A flowchart showing a start step ('Start Process') and a next step ('Next Step Link') connected with two arrows from the start step to the next step.]</code></pre>
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          <h2>πŸ™ Checkout from GitHub</h2>
          <p>Clone only this agent's folder from the monorepo using Git sparse-checkout β€” no need to download the full repository:</p>

          <h3 style="font-size: 1.05rem; color: #0f172a; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem;">Option 1 β€” Sparse Checkout (Recommended)</h3>
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              <div class="code-title" style="color: #94a3b8; font-weight: 700; font-size: 0.8rem; font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;">Terminal β€” Git Sparse Checkout</div>
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              <pre style="margin:0; background:#0f172a; color:#f8fafc; font-family:'JetBrains Mono',monospace; font-size:0.88rem; border:none; box-shadow:none; padding:0; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="color:#64748b;"># 1. Create and enter a new directory</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">mkdir</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">slm_web_scraper</span> <span style="color:#94a3b8;">&amp;&amp;</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">cd</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">slm_web_scraper</span>

<span style="color:#64748b;"># 2. Initialise empty git repo and add remote</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git init</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git remote add origin</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">https://github.com/t00114218-stack/SLMAgents.git</span>

<span style="color:#64748b;"># 3. Enable sparse-checkout and set target folder</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git sparse-checkout init</span> <span style="color:#94a3b8;">--cone</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git sparse-checkout set</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">slm_web_scraper</span>

<span style="color:#64748b;"># 4. Pull only that agent's source</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git pull origin</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">main</span></pre>
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          <h3 style="font-size: 1.05rem; color: #0f172a; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem;">Option 2 β€” Full Repository Clone</h3>
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              <div class="code-title" style="color: #94a3b8; font-weight: 700; font-size: 0.8rem; font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;">Terminal β€” Full Clone</div>
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              <pre style="margin:0; background:#0f172a; color:#f8fafc; font-family:'JetBrains Mono',monospace; font-size:0.88rem; border:none; box-shadow:none; padding:0; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">git clone</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">https://github.com/t00114218-stack/SLMAgents.git</span>
<span style="color:#34d399;">$</span> <span style="color:#c084fc; font-weight:700;">cd</span> <span style="color:#38bdf8;">SLMAgents/slm_web_scraper</span></pre>
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            πŸ’‘ <strong>Tip:</strong> After checkout, install the package locally with <code style="background: #eef2ff; color: #4f46e5; border: 1px solid #c7d2fe; padding: 2px 8px; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: 700;">pip install -e ./slm_web_scraper</code> to run in editable mode without publishing to PyPI.
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