v2.40.2

spider-rs/spiderv2.40.2Jan 23, 2026by j-mendez

AI Summary

Introduces a Remote Multimodal Engine for Chrome automation, allowing vision and LLM-driven iterative web crawling and action execution.

Key Highlights

Remote Multimodal Engine for Chrome automation using vision + LLM
Iterative automation loop: capture → infer plan → execute → re-capture
Unified `RemoteMultimodalConfigs` for configuring API endpoints and models
Strict JSON automation plans for structured execution

New Features

Remote multimodal automation
Iterative automation loop
Unified configuration system
Strict JSON plan support

Full Release Notes

## Whats Changed

Solve web challenges, perform actions, and more with remote multimodal iterative automation.

- **Remote Multimodal Engine** for Chrome automation using vision + LLM
- Iterative automation loop:
  capture → infer plan → execute → re-capture → repeat
- Unified `RemoteMultimodalConfigs` to configure:
  - API endpoint
  - Model selection
  - Prompts
  - Retry behavior
  - Capture strategies
- Strict JSON automation plans:
  `{ "label": "...", "done": true|false, "steps": [...] }`

```rust
website.with_remote_multimodal(Some(
    RemoteMultimodalConfigs::new("http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions", "GLM-4.7-Flash")
        .with_api_key(Some(API_KEY))
));
```

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/spider-rs/spider/compare/v2.39.14...v2.40.2