Here you'll find a contributing guide to get started with development.
For local development, it is required to have Python 3.9 (or a later version) installed.
We use uv for project management. Install it and set up your IDE accordingly.
To install this package and its development dependencies, run:
make install-dev
To execute all code checking tools together, run:
make check-code
We utilize ruff for linting, which analyzes code for potential issues and enforces consistent style. Refer to pyproject.toml
for configuration details.
To run linting:
make lint
Our automated code formatting also leverages ruff, ensuring uniform style and addressing fixable linting issues. Configuration specifics are outlined in pyproject.toml
.
To run formatting:
make format
Type checking is handled by mypy, verifying code against type annotations. Configuration settings can be found in pyproject.toml
.
To run type checking:
make type-check
We employ pytest as our testing framework, equipped with various plugins. Check pyproject.toml for configuration details and installed plugins.
We use pytest as a testing framework with many plugins. Check pyproject.toml
for configuration details and installed plugins.
To run unit tests:
make unit-tests
To run unit tests with HTML coverage report:
make unit-tests-cov
Pre-requisites for running end-to-end tests:
- apify-cli correctly installed
apify-cli
available inPATH
environment variable- Your apify token is available in
APIFY_TEST_USER_API_TOKEN
environment variable
To run end-to-end tests:
make e2e-templates-tests
We follow the Google docstring format for code documentation. All user-facing classes and functions must be documented. Documentation standards are enforced using Ruff.
Our API documentation is generated from these docstrings using pydoc-markdown with custom post-processing. Additional content is provided through markdown files in the docs/
directory. The final documentation is rendered using Docusaurus and published to GitHub pages.
To run the documentation locally, ensure you have Node.js
20+ installed, then run:
make run-docs
Publishing new versions to PyPI is automated through GitHub Actions.
- Beta releases: On each commit to the master branch, a new beta release is automatically published. The version number is determined based on the latest release and conventional commits. The beta version suffix is incremented by 1 from the last beta release on PyPI.
- Stable releases: A stable version release may be created by triggering the
release
GitHub Actions workflow. The version number is determined based on the latest release and conventional commits (auto
release type), or it may be overriden using thecustom
release type.
-
Do not do this unless absolutely necessary. In all conceivable scenarios, you should use the
release
workflow instead. -
Make sure you know what you're doing.
-
Update the version number:
- Modify the
version
field underproject
inpyproject.toml
.
[project]
name = "crawlee"
version = "x.z.y"
- Generate the distribution archives for the package:
uv build
- Set up the PyPI API token for authentication and upload the package to PyPI:
uv publish --token YOUR_API_TOKEN