Has anyone successfully used OpenRouter?

[moltovivo]

Crawling is working great when I directly put a LLM model provider and token in. But when I try Openrouter models, it seems to not be recognising it.
Has anyone gotten an OpenRouter model working, and is there something different you need to do for this?

I commented on an issue here about OpenRouter hanging. It doesn't hang for me, but I do get an error that points me to the LiteLLM providers page, as if it is not a recognised model. Tried multiple (older, established) models with Openrouter,

#1115

[hafezparast]

OpenRouter works — it's an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The model format is openrouter/<model-name>.

The key thing: you need to provide your OpenRouter API key either via api_token in LLMConfig or the OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable.

from crawl4ai import AsyncWebCrawler, CrawlerRunConfig
from crawl4ai.extraction_strategy import LLMExtractionStrategy
from crawl4ai.async_configs import LLMConfig

strategy = LLMExtractionStrategy(
    llm_config=LLMConfig(
        provider="openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25",
        api_token="sk-or-v1-your-openrouter-key-here",
    ),
    instruction="Extract the main content",
)

config = CrawlerRunConfig(extraction_strategy=strategy)

async with AsyncWebCrawler() as crawler:
    result = await crawler.arun(url, config=config)

Or set the env var instead:

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-your-key"

The error you're seeing ("points me to the LiteLLM providers page") was from the old litellm dependency's error handling — it showed that message whenever it didn't recognize a provider prefix. If you're on a recent version and still seeing this, make sure the provider string starts with openrouter/ (not just the model name).