[Bug]: crwl -b fail

[lisuwei]

crawl4ai version

0.6.1

Expected Behavior

Crawl4AI CLI work using -b parameter

Current Behavior

Is this reproducible?

Yes

Inputs Causing the Bug

Steps to Reproduce

Code snippets

OS

windows

Python version

Python 3.12.6

Browser

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Browser version

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Error logs & Screenshots (if applicable)

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[aravindkarnam]

Root cause

Looking at the code, there are two options both using -b as their shorthand:

@click.option("--browser", "-b", ...)
@click.option("--bypass-cache", "-b", is_flag=True, ...)

When Click sees -b, it can't tell which one you mean. Since --bypass-cache is a flag that doesn't take a value, it treats everything after -b as an unexpected argument.

Suggestions

Change one of the shorthands to something else:

# Either this:
@click.option("--bypass-cache", "-bc", is_flag=True, ...)

# Or this:
@click.option("--browser", "-br", ...)

[aravindkarnam]

@lisuwei As you can see the error is result of a conflicting shorthand "-b" between "--browser" and "--bypass-cache". We'll fix it in the next release. In the meantime use the full form.

crwl https://example.com --browser "headless=true,viewport_width=1280,user_agent_mode=random"