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fix: return longer placeholder in PDFCrawlerStrategy to bypass anti-bot detection - #2169

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这次改了什么

Fixes #2135

PDFCrawlerStrategy.crawl() was returning a 33-byte placeholder HTML string "Scraper will handle the real work", which triggered the anti-bot detector's "Near-empty content" check (threshold: 100 bytes).

修法: Returns a longer placeholder HTML that bypasses the anti-bot check, allowing PDFContentScrapingStrategy to process the PDF correctly.

怎么验证的

from crawl4ai import AsyncWebCrawler, PDFCrawlerStrategy, PDFContentScrapingStrategy

async with AsyncWebCrawler(crawler_strategy=PDFCrawlerStrategy()) as crawler:
    result = await crawler.arun(
        url="https://example.com/file.pdf",
        content_scraping_strategy=PDFContentScrapingStrategy()
    )
    assert result.success  # Previously failed with "Blocked by anti-bot protection"

风险

Low risk — changes a placeholder string to be longer. No functional change to PDF processing logic.

PDFCrawlerStrategy returns a minimal placeholder HTML with
Content-Type: application/pdf. The anti-bot detector's near-empty
content check (threshold: 100 bytes) misreads this as a blocked page.

Instead of padding the placeholder string to exceed the threshold,
skip the anti-bot near-empty check when the response Content-Type
is non-HTML (e.g. application/pdf). This is the correct semantic:
PDF responses are expected to have minimal HTML by design.

Fixes unclecode#2135

Signed-off-by: Battleplus <3559424769@qq.com>
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Battleplus force-pushed the fix/2135-pdf-anti-bot branch from f6a7093 to 5adcfbd Compare August 21, 2026 16:30
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此 PR 包含了其他 PR 的改动(stacked PR 问题)。请从最新 upstream/main 重建分支,只保留此 PR 相关的 commit。

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Superseded by clean PR #2183 from upstream/main base.

@Battleplus Battleplus closed this Aug 22, 2026
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[Bug]: PDFCrawlerStrategy fails with "Blocked by anti-bot protection" - the documented PDF example is broken

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