## [Crawlee v3.16: AI-Powered Crawling with StagehandCrawler](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md)

February 6, 2026 ·

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5 min read

[![Martin Adámek](https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/615580?s=460\&v=4)](https://github.com/B4nan)

[Martin Adámek](https://github.com/B4nan)

Crawlee Maintainer

Crawlee v3.16 is here, and the headline feature is the new `StagehandCrawler` — an AI-powered crawler that lets you interact with web pages using natural language instead of CSS selectors. On top of that, we've added async iterators for `Dataset` and `KeyValueStore`, a new `discoverValidSitemaps` utility, and made `handleCloudflareChallenge` more configurable.

Here's what's new:

* [StagehandCrawler — AI-powered browser automation](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md#stagehandcrawler--ai-powered-browser-automation)
* [Async iterators for Dataset and KeyValueStore](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md#async-iterators-for-dataset-and-keyvaluestore)
* [discoverValidSitemaps utility](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md#discovervalidsitemaps-utility)
* [Improved Cloudflare challenge handling](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md#improved-cloudflare-challenge-handling)

[**Read More**](https://crawlee.dev/blog/crawlee-v3-16.md)