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Magnus Hedemark edited this page Jun 10, 2026 · 1 revision

Configuration

GroktoCrawl is configured through environment variables in .env. Below is the full reference organized by concern.

LLM provider

Variable Default Description
LLM_API_KEY (empty) API key for the LLM provider
LLM_BASE_URL http://llm-svc:8011/v1 OpenAI-compatible endpoint
LLM_MODEL deepseek-v4-flash Model name to use
LLM_ENABLE_THINKING false Enable thinking/reasoning for supported models
WEBHOOK_SECRET (empty) HMAC secret for webhook payload signing

API security

Variable Default Description
API_KEY (empty) When set, requires Bearer token on all endpoints except /health and /metrics

Service URLs

Variable Default Description
VALKEY_URL redis://valkey:6379/0 Valkey connection string
SEARXNG_URL http://searxng:8080 SearXNG search engine URL
SCRAPER_URL http://scraper-svc:8001 Scraper service URL
SEMANTIC_URL http://semantic-svc:8003 Semantic service URL
QDRANT_URL http://qdrant:6333 Qdrant vector database URL

Vector index

Variable Default Description
VECTOR_INDEX_MAX_DOCS 250000 Maximum documents before eviction
EMBED_MODEL_NAME BAAI/bge-m3 Embedding model name
EMBED_DIM 1024 Embedding dimension (must match model)
ACTIVE_EMBED_MODEL v_bge-m3 Active named vector for queries

Near-duplicate detection

Variable Default Description
NEAR_DUP_THRESHOLD 0.95 Cosine similarity threshold
NEAR_DUP_MODE skip Behavior: "skip" or "update"

Scrape cache

Variable Default Description
SCRAPE_CACHE_TTL 3600 Global cache TTL (seconds)
SCRAPE_CACHE_MIN_TTL 60 Minimum cache TTL
SCRAPE_CACHE_MAX_TTL 86400 Maximum cache TTL
SCRAPE_CACHE_STABLE_MULTIPLIER 2.0 TTL multiplier for unchanged content
SCRAPE_CACHE_VOLATILE_CAP 300 TTL cap for volatile content (change_count >= 5)
SCRAPE_CACHE_DOMAIN_TTLS (empty) JSON dict of domain -> TTL overrides

Politeness protocol

Variable Default Description
SCRAPER_POLITENESS_ENABLED false Enable per-domain rate limiting
SCRAPER_POLITENESS_CRAWL_DELAY 1.0 Minimum delay between requests (seconds)
SCRAPER_POLITENESS_ROBOTS_TTL 3600 robots.txt cache TTL

Proxy

Variable Default Description
SCRAPER_PROXY_URL (empty) Outbound proxy URL (http, https, socks5, socks5h)

Quality gates

Variable Default Description
QA_MIN_CONTENT_CHARS 200 Minimum content characters
QA_MIN_TITLE_CHARS 10 Minimum title characters
QA_MAX_BOILERPLATE_RATIO 0.7 Maximum boilerplate-to-content ratio
QA_MIN_QUALITY_THRESHOLD 0.3 Quality score threshold for tier degradation

Adapters

Variable Default Description
GITHUB_TOKEN (empty) GitHub API token (5,000 req/hr vs 60 unauth)
ADAPTER_YOUTUBE_API_KEY (empty) YouTube Data API v3 key (optional)
BRAVE_API_KEY (empty) Brave Search API key for SearXNG

Logging

Variable Default Description
LOG_LEVEL INFO Root logger level (INFO, DEBUG, WARNING, ERROR)

FlareSolverr

Variable Default Description
FLARE_SOLVERR_URL http://flare-solverr:8191/v1 FlareSolverr endpoint
FLARE_SOLVERR_PORT 8191 Host port for FlareSolverr
FLARE_SOLVERR_LOG_LEVEL info FlareSolverr log level
FLARE_SOLVERR_CAPTCHA_SOLVER none CAPTCHA solver backend

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