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+## Smoke test payload
+
+Use this payload to verify the scraper against the public demo site `https://quotes.toscrape.com/` while respecting robots.txt. It should return parseable JSON, quote items, a saved JSON file, an HTML capture path, and screenshot paths only when `screenshot` is `true`.
+
+```json
+{
+  "url": "https://quotes.toscrape.com/",
+  "selectors": {
+    "quotes": ".quote",
+    "text": ".text",
+    "author": ".author",
+    "tags": ".tag"
+  },
+  "max_pages": 1,
+  "wait_seconds": 1,
+  "output_format": "json",
+  "headless": true,
+  "user_agent": "",
+  "respect_robots": true,
+  "rate_limit_seconds": 1,
+  "screenshot": false
+}
+```
+
 ## Deployment notes
 
 The agent declares a larger runtime budget because browser work can be CPU/memory intensive. Actual browser execution is performed through the workspace sandbox helper using the SeleniumBase image, so files written under `/workspace/outputs/seleniumbase-website-scraper/` are durable workspace outputs.