diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/package.json b/basango/apps/crawler/package.json
index ef35b98..a92c5ef 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/package.json
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/package.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     "bullmq": "^4.17.0",
     "date-fns": "catalog:",
     "ioredis": "^5.3.2",
+    "node-html-parser": "^6.1.10",
     "tiktoken": "^1.0.14",
     "zod": "catalog:"
   }
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/crawler.test.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/crawler.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..039370f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/crawler.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { PipelineConfigManager } from "@/config";
+import { registerCrawler, clearCrawlerRegistry, runSyncCrawl } from "@/process/crawler";
+import { PipelineConfigSchema, SourceKindSchema } from "@/schema";
+
+const createPipeline = () =>
+  PipelineConfigSchema.parse({
+    paths: {
+      root: ".",
+      data: ".",
+      logs: ".",
+      configs: ".",
+    },
+    sources: {
+      html: [
+        {
+          source_id: "demo",
+          source_url: "https://example.com",
+          source_kind: SourceKindSchema.enum.html,
+          pagination_template: "/page/{page}",
+        },
+      ],
+      wordpress: [],
+    },
+  });
+
+describe("runSyncCrawl", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    clearCrawlerRegistry();
+  });
+
+  it("invokes registered crawler factory", async () => {
+    const pipeline = createPipeline();
+    const fetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const close = vi.fn();
+
+    registerCrawler(SourceKindSchema.enum.html, () => ({ fetch, close }));
+
+    const manager = {
+      get: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(pipeline),
+      setupLogging: vi.fn(),
+    } as unknown as PipelineConfigManager;
+
+    const persistClose = vi.fn();
+    const persistFactory = vi.fn().mockReturnValue([
+      { persist: vi.fn(), close: persistClose },
+    ]);
+
+    await runSyncCrawl({
+      sourceId: "demo",
+      env: "test",
+      manager,
+      persistFactory,
+    });
+
+    expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(persistFactory).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      pipeline,
+      source: pipeline.sources.html[0],
+      resolvedSourceId: "demo",
+    });
+    expect(persistClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("throws when source is missing", async () => {
+    const pipeline = createPipeline();
+    registerCrawler(SourceKindSchema.enum.html, () => ({ fetch: vi.fn() }));
+    const manager = {
+      get: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(pipeline),
+      setupLogging: vi.fn(),
+    } as unknown as PipelineConfigManager;
+
+    await expect(
+      runSyncCrawl({ sourceId: "unknown", manager }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow("Source 'unknown' not found");
+  });
+
+  it("throws when no crawler registered", async () => {
+    const pipeline = createPipeline();
+    const manager = {
+      get: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(pipeline),
+      setupLogging: vi.fn(),
+    } as unknown as PipelineConfigManager;
+
+    await expect(
+      runSyncCrawl({ sourceId: "demo", manager }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow("No crawler registered");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/http-client.test.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/http-client.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ad0048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/http-client.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { ClientConfigSchema } from "@/schema";
+import { HttpError, SyncHttpClient } from "@/http/http-client";
+
+const createConfig = () =>
+  ClientConfigSchema.parse({
+    timeout: 1,
+    max_retries: 2,
+    backoff_initial: 0.001,
+    backoff_multiplier: 2,
+    backoff_max: 0.01,
+  });
+
+describe("SyncHttpClient", () => {
+  it("retries transient statuses", async () => {
+    const config = createConfig();
+    const sleep = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const fetchMock = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response("retry", { status: 503 }))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response("ok", { status: 200, body: "done" }));
+
+    const client = new SyncHttpClient(config, { fetchImpl: fetchMock, sleep });
+    const response = await client.get("https://example.com");
+
+    expect(await response.text()).toBe("done");
+    expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(sleep).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("respects retry-after header", async () => {
+    const config = createConfig();
+    const sleep = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const fetchMock = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(
+        new Response("retry", { status: 503, headers: { "Retry-After": "3" } }),
+      )
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response("ok", { status: 200 }));
+
+    const client = new SyncHttpClient(config, { fetchImpl: fetchMock, sleep });
+    await client.get("https://example.com");
+
+    expect(sleep).toHaveBeenCalledWith(3000);
+  });
+
+  it("throws http error on non transient failure", async () => {
+    const config = createConfig();
+    const fetchMock = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response("bad", { status: 404, statusText: "Not Found" }));
+
+    const client = new SyncHttpClient(config, { fetchImpl: fetchMock });
+
+    await expect(client.get("https://example.com"))
+      .rejects.toBeInstanceOf(HttpError);
+  });
+
+  it("sends json payload and query params", async () => {
+    const config = createConfig();
+    const fetchMock = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValue(new Response("ok", { status: 200 }));
+
+    const client = new SyncHttpClient(config, { fetchImpl: fetchMock });
+    await client.post("https://example.com/api", {
+      params: { page: 1, q: "news" },
+      json: { hello: "world" },
+      headers: { Authorization: "token" },
+    });
+
+    expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const [url, init] = fetchMock.mock.calls[0]!;
+    expect(url).toBe("https://example.com/api?page=1&q=news");
+    expect(init?.method).toBe("POST");
+    expect(init?.body).toBe(JSON.stringify({ hello: "world" }));
+    expect((init?.headers as Record<string, string>)["Authorization"]).toBe("token");
+    expect((init?.headers as Record<string, string>)["Content-Type"]).toBe(
+      "application/json",
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/open-graph.test.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/open-graph.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3e51e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/open-graph.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { OpenGraphProvider } from "@/http/open-graph";
+
+const sampleHtml = `
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Example Article</title>
+    <meta property="og:title" content="Open Graph Title" />
+    <meta property="og:description" content="Summary" />
+    <meta property="og:image" content="https://cdn.example.com/image.jpg" />
+    <meta property="og:url" content="https://example.com/article" />
+    <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/canonical" />
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <img src="https://cdn.example.com/fallback.jpg" />
+  </body>
+</html>
+`;
+
+describe("OpenGraphProvider", () => {
+  it("extracts metadata from html", () => {
+    const metadata = OpenGraphProvider.consumeHtml(sampleHtml, "https://example.com");
+
+    expect(metadata).toEqual({
+      title: "Open Graph Title",
+      description: "Summary",
+      image: "https://cdn.example.com/image.jpg",
+      url: "https://example.com/article",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to null when no metadata present", () => {
+    const empty = OpenGraphProvider.consumeHtml("<html><body></body></html>");
+    expect(empty).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("fetches metadata from url", async () => {
+    const response = new Response(sampleHtml, { status: 200 });
+    const get = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(response);
+
+    const provider = new OpenGraphProvider({ client: { get } });
+    const metadata = await provider.consumeUrl("https://example.com/article");
+
+    expect(get).toHaveBeenCalledWith("https://example.com/article");
+    expect(metadata?.title).toBe("Open Graph Title");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/persistence.test.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/persistence.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05d9e44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/__tests__/persistence.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { JsonlPersistor } from "@/persistence";
+
+describe("JsonlPersistor", () => {
+  it("writes json lines sequentially", async () => {
+    const tempDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "jsonl-test-"));
+    const persistor = new JsonlPersistor({ directory: tempDir, sourceId: "demo" });
+
+    await Promise.all([
+      persistor.persist({ id: 1, title: "first" }),
+      persistor.persist({ id: 2, title: "second" }),
+    ]);
+
+    await persistor.close();
+
+    const contents = fs.readFileSync(path.join(tempDir, "demo.jsonl"), "utf-8");
+    const lines = contents.trim().split("\n").map((line) => JSON.parse(line));
+
+    expect(lines).toContainEqual({ id: 1, title: "first" });
+    expect(lines).toContainEqual({ id: 2, title: "second" });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/constants.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/constants.ts
index 79e2486..0c4e0e1 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/constants.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/constants.ts
@@ -5,3 +5,11 @@ export const DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILES = [
   path.join(process.cwd(), "config", "pipeline.json"),
   path.join(process.cwd(), "pipeline.json"),
 ];
+
+export const DEFAULT_USER_AGENT =
+  "Basango/0.1 (+https://github.com/bernard-ng/basango)";
+export const OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT = "facebookexternalhit/1.1";
+
+export const TRANSIENT_HTTP_STATUSES = [429, 500, 502, 503, 504] as const;
+
+export const DEFAULT_RETRY_AFTER_HEADER = "retry-after";
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/http-client.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/http-client.ts
index e69de29..79b3c75 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/http-client.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/http-client.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+import { setTimeout as delay } from "node:timers/promises";
+
+import type { ClientConfig } from "@/schema";
+import { DEFAULT_RETRY_AFTER_HEADER, DEFAULT_USER_AGENT, TRANSIENT_HTTP_STATUSES } from "@/constants";
+import { UserAgents } from "@/http/user-agent";
+
+export type HttpHeaders = Record<string, string>;
+export type HttpParams = Record<string, string | number | boolean | null | undefined>;
+export type HttpData = unknown;
+
+export interface HttpClientOptions {
+  userAgentProvider?: UserAgents;
+  defaultHeaders?: HttpHeaders;
+  fetchImpl?: typeof fetch;
+  sleep?: (ms: number) => Promise<void>;
+}
+
+export interface HttpRequestOptions {
+  headers?: HttpHeaders;
+  params?: HttpParams;
+  data?: HttpData;
+  json?: HttpData;
+  retryAfterHeader?: string;
+}
+
+export class HttpError extends Error {
+  readonly status: number;
+  readonly response: Response;
+
+  constructor(message: string, response: Response) {
+    super(message);
+    this.status = response.status;
+    this.response = response;
+  }
+}
+
+const defaultSleep = (ms: number): Promise<void> => {
+  if (typeof Bun !== "undefined" && typeof Bun.sleep === "function") {
+    return Bun.sleep(ms);
+  }
+  return delay(ms).then(() => undefined);
+};
+
+const buildUrl = (url: string, params?: HttpParams): string => {
+  if (!params || Object.keys(params).length === 0) {
+    return url;
+  }
+
+  const target = new URL(url);
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(params)) {
+    if (value === undefined || value === null) continue;
+    target.searchParams.set(key, String(value));
+  }
+
+  return target.toString();
+};
+
+const computeBackoff = (config: ClientConfig, attempt: number): number => {
+  const base = Math.min(
+    config.backoff_initial * Math.pow(config.backoff_multiplier, attempt),
+    config.backoff_max,
+  );
+  const jitter = Math.random() * base * 0.25;
+  return (base + jitter) * 1000;
+};
+
+const parseRetryAfter = (header: string): number => {
+  const numeric = Number.parseInt(header, 10);
+  if (!Number.isNaN(numeric)) {
+    return Math.max(0, numeric * 1000);
+  }
+
+  const parsed = Date.parse(header);
+  if (Number.isNaN(parsed)) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  const delta = parsed - Date.now();
+  return delta > 0 ? delta : 0;
+};
+
+export class BaseHttpClient {
+  protected readonly config: ClientConfig;
+  protected readonly fetchImpl: typeof fetch;
+  protected readonly sleep: (ms: number) => Promise<void>;
+  protected readonly headers: HttpHeaders;
+
+  constructor(config: ClientConfig, options: HttpClientOptions = {}) {
+    this.config = config;
+    const provider =
+      options.userAgentProvider ??
+      new UserAgents(config.rotate, config.user_agent ?? DEFAULT_USER_AGENT);
+    const userAgent = provider.get() ?? config.user_agent ?? DEFAULT_USER_AGENT;
+
+    const baseHeaders: HttpHeaders = { "User-Agent": userAgent };
+    if (options.defaultHeaders) {
+      Object.assign(baseHeaders, options.defaultHeaders);
+    }
+
+    this.headers = baseHeaders;
+    this.fetchImpl = options.fetchImpl ?? fetch;
+    this.sleep = options.sleep ?? defaultSleep;
+  }
+
+  protected buildHeaders(headers?: HttpHeaders): HeadersInit {
+    return { ...this.headers, ...(headers ?? {}) };
+  }
+
+  protected async maybeDelay(
+    attempt: number,
+    response?: Response,
+    retryAfterHeader: string = DEFAULT_RETRY_AFTER_HEADER,
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    let waitMs = 0;
+
+    if (response) {
+      const retryAfter = response.headers.get(retryAfterHeader);
+      if (retryAfter && this.config.respect_retry_after) {
+        waitMs = parseRetryAfter(retryAfter);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (waitMs === 0) {
+      waitMs = computeBackoff(this.config, attempt);
+    }
+
+    if (waitMs > 0) {
+      await this.sleep(waitMs);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+export class SyncHttpClient extends BaseHttpClient {
+  async request(
+    method: string,
+    url: string,
+    options: HttpRequestOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<Response> {
+    const retryAfterHeader = options.retryAfterHeader ?? DEFAULT_RETRY_AFTER_HEADER;
+    const target = buildUrl(url, options.params);
+
+    const maxAttempts = this.config.max_retries + 1;
+    let attempt = 0;
+    let lastError: unknown;
+
+    while (attempt < maxAttempts) {
+      const controller = new AbortController();
+      let timeoutHandle: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
+      try {
+        timeoutHandle = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), this.config.timeout * 1000);
+
+        const headers = this.buildHeaders(options.headers);
+        const init: RequestInit = {
+          method,
+          headers,
+          body: options.data as BodyInit | undefined,
+          signal: controller.signal,
+          redirect: this.config.follow_redirects ? "follow" : "manual",
+        };
+
+        if (options.json !== undefined) {
+          init.body = JSON.stringify(options.json);
+          (init.headers as Record<string, string>)["Content-Type"] ??=
+            "application/json";
+        }
+
+        const response = await this.fetchImpl(target, init);
+
+        if (
+          TRANSIENT_HTTP_STATUSES.includes(response.status as number) &&
+          attempt < this.config.max_retries
+        ) {
+          await this.maybeDelay(attempt, response, retryAfterHeader);
+          attempt += 1;
+          continue;
+        }
+
+        if (!response.ok) {
+          throw new HttpError(`HTTP ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`, response);
+        }
+
+        return response;
+      } catch (error) {
+        if (error instanceof HttpError) {
+          lastError = error;
+          throw error;
+        }
+
+        if (error instanceof DOMException && error.name === "AbortError") {
+          lastError = error;
+          if (attempt >= this.config.max_retries) {
+            throw error;
+          }
+        } else {
+          lastError = error;
+          if (attempt >= this.config.max_retries) {
+            throw error;
+          }
+        }
+
+        await this.maybeDelay(attempt);
+        attempt += 1;
+      } finally {
+        if (timeoutHandle) {
+          clearTimeout(timeoutHandle);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    throw lastError instanceof Error
+      ? lastError
+      : new Error("HTTP request failed after retries");
+  }
+
+  get(url: string, options?: Omit<HttpRequestOptions, "data" | "json">): Promise<Response> {
+    return this.request("GET", url, options);
+  }
+
+  post(url: string, options: HttpRequestOptions = {}): Promise<Response> {
+    return this.request("POST", url, options);
+  }
+}
+
+export type HttpClient = SyncHttpClient;
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/open-graph.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/open-graph.ts
index e69de29..9aabae8 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/open-graph.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/open-graph.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import { parse } from "node-html-parser";
+
+import { OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT } from "@/constants";
+import type { ClientConfig } from "@/schema";
+import { SyncHttpClient } from "@/http/http-client";
+import { UserAgents } from "@/http/user-agent";
+
+export interface OpenGraphMetadata {
+  title?: string | null;
+  description?: string | null;
+  image?: string | null;
+  url?: string | null;
+}
+
+export interface OpenGraphProviderOptions {
+  client?: Pick<SyncHttpClient, "get">;
+  clientConfig?: ClientConfig;
+  userAgentProvider?: UserAgents;
+}
+
+const pick = (values: Array<string | null | undefined>): string | null => {
+  for (const value of values) {
+    if (value && value.trim().length > 0) {
+      return value.trim();
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+};
+
+const extractMeta = (root: ReturnType<typeof parse>, property: string): string | null => {
+  const selector = `meta[property='${property}'], meta[name='${property}']`;
+  const node = root.querySelector(selector);
+  if (!node) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  return node.getAttribute("content") ?? null;
+};
+
+export class OpenGraphProvider {
+  private readonly client: Pick<SyncHttpClient, "get">;
+
+  constructor(options: OpenGraphProviderOptions = {}) {
+    const provider =
+      options.userAgentProvider ?? new UserAgents(false, OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT);
+    const clientConfig: ClientConfig =
+      options.clientConfig ?? ({
+        timeout: 20,
+        user_agent: OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT,
+        follow_redirects: true,
+        verify_ssl: true,
+        rotate: false,
+        max_retries: 2,
+        backoff_initial: 1,
+        backoff_multiplier: 2,
+        backoff_max: 5,
+        respect_retry_after: true,
+      } satisfies ClientConfig);
+
+    this.client =
+      options.client ??
+      new SyncHttpClient(clientConfig, {
+        userAgentProvider: provider,
+        defaultHeaders: { "User-Agent": provider.og() },
+      });
+  }
+
+  async consumeUrl(url: string): Promise<OpenGraphMetadata | null> {
+    try {
+      const response = await this.client.get(url);
+      const html = await response.text();
+      return OpenGraphProvider.consumeHtml(html, url);
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  static consumeHtml(html: string, url?: string): OpenGraphMetadata | null {
+    if (!html) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    const root = parse(html);
+    const title = pick([
+      extractMeta(root, "og:title"),
+      root.querySelector("title")?.text,
+    ]);
+    const description = pick([
+      extractMeta(root, "og:description"),
+      extractMeta(root, "description"),
+    ]);
+    const image = pick([
+      extractMeta(root, "og:image"),
+      root.querySelector("img")?.getAttribute("src") ?? null,
+    ]);
+    const canonical = pick([
+      extractMeta(root, "og:url"),
+      root.querySelector("link[rel='canonical']")?.getAttribute("href") ?? null,
+      url ?? null,
+    ]);
+
+    if (!title && !description && !image && !canonical) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    return {
+      title,
+      description,
+      image,
+      url: canonical,
+    };
+  }
+}
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/user-agent.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/user-agent.ts
index a4656d1..b7cb1c3 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/user-agent.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/http/user-agent.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { DEFAULT_USER_AGENT, OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT } from "@/constants";
+
 export class UserAgents {
   private static readonly USER_AGENTS: string[] = [
     "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_4_8; like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.39 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.3638.271 Mobile Safari/537.5",
@@ -15,16 +17,13 @@ export class UserAgents {
   private readonly rotate: boolean;
   private readonly fallback: string;
 
-  constructor(
-    rotate: boolean = true,
-    fallback: string = "Basango/0.1 (+https://github.com/bernard-ng/basango)",
-  ) {
+  constructor(rotate: boolean = true, fallback: string = DEFAULT_USER_AGENT) {
     this.rotate = rotate;
     this.fallback = fallback;
   }
 
   static og(): string {
-    return "facebookexternalhit/1.1";
+    return OPEN_GRAPH_USER_AGENT;
   }
 
   get(): string {
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/persistence.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/persistence.ts
index e69de29..5d45222 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/persistence.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/persistence.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+export interface PersistedRecord {
+  [key: string]: unknown;
+}
+
+export interface Persistor {
+  persist(record: PersistedRecord): Promise<void> | void;
+  close?: () => Promise<void> | void;
+}
+
+export interface JsonlPersistorOptions {
+  directory: string;
+  sourceId: string;
+  suffix?: string;
+  encoding?: BufferEncoding;
+}
+
+export class JsonlPersistor implements Persistor {
+  private readonly filePath: string;
+  private readonly encoding: BufferEncoding;
+  private pending: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve();
+  private closed = false;
+
+  constructor(options: JsonlPersistorOptions) {
+    const suffix = options.suffix ?? ".jsonl";
+    this.encoding = options.encoding ?? "utf-8";
+
+    fs.mkdirSync(options.directory, { recursive: true });
+    this.filePath = path.join(options.directory, `${options.sourceId}${suffix}`);
+
+    if (!fs.existsSync(this.filePath)) {
+      fs.writeFileSync(this.filePath, "", { encoding: this.encoding });
+    }
+  }
+
+  persist(record: PersistedRecord): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.closed) {
+      return Promise.reject(new Error("Persistor has been closed"));
+    }
+
+    const payload = `${JSON.stringify(record)}\n`;
+
+    this.pending = this.pending.then(async () => {
+      const file = Bun.file(this.filePath);
+      await Bun.write(file, payload, { append: true });
+    });
+
+    return this.pending;
+  }
+
+  async close(): Promise<void> {
+    this.closed = true;
+    await this.pending;
+  }
+}
+
+export type { JsonlPersistorOptions as JsonlOptions };
diff --git a/basango/apps/crawler/src/process/crawler.ts b/basango/apps/crawler/src/process/crawler.ts
index e69de29..dfe60d8 100644
--- a/basango/apps/crawler/src/process/crawler.ts
+++ b/basango/apps/crawler/src/process/crawler.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+import { logger } from "@basango/logger";
+
+import { PipelineConfigManager } from "@/config";
+import { JsonlPersistor, Persistor } from "@/persistence";
+import {
+  AnySourceConfig,
+  ClientConfig,
+  CrawlerConfig,
+  CrawlerConfigSchema,
+  PipelineConfig,
+  SourceKind,
+} from "@/schema";
+import { createDateRange } from "@/utils";
+import { PageRangeSchema, PageRangeSpecSchema } from "@/schema";
+
+export interface CrawlerInstance {
+  fetch: () => Promise<void> | void;
+  close?: () => Promise<void> | void;
+}
+
+export interface CrawlerContext {
+  pipeline: PipelineConfig;
+  source: AnySourceConfig;
+  clientConfig: ClientConfig;
+  crawlerConfig: CrawlerConfig;
+  persistors: Persistor[];
+}
+
+export type CrawlerFactory = (context: CrawlerContext) => CrawlerInstance;
+
+const registry = new Map<SourceKind, CrawlerFactory>();
+
+export const registerCrawler = (kind: SourceKind, factory: CrawlerFactory): void => {
+  registry.set(kind, factory);
+};
+
+export const clearCrawlerRegistry = (): void => {
+  registry.clear();
+};
+
+export interface RunSyncCrawlOptions {
+  sourceId: string;
+  env?: string;
+  pageRange?: string | null;
+  dateRange?: string | null;
+  category?: string | null;
+  notify?: boolean;
+  manager?: PipelineConfigManager;
+  persistFactory?: (context: {
+    pipeline: PipelineConfig;
+    source: AnySourceConfig;
+    resolvedSourceId: string;
+  }) => Persistor[];
+}
+
+const resolvePageRange = (spec?: string | null) => {
+  if (!spec) return undefined;
+  const parsed = PageRangeSpecSchema.parse(spec);
+  return PageRangeSchema.parse(parsed);
+};
+
+const resolveCrawlerConfig = (
+  source: AnySourceConfig,
+  options: RunSyncCrawlOptions,
+): CrawlerConfig => {
+  const page_range = resolvePageRange(options.pageRange);
+  const date_range = options.dateRange ? createDateRange(options.dateRange) : undefined;
+
+  return CrawlerConfigSchema.parse({
+    source,
+    page_range,
+    date_range,
+    category: options.category ?? undefined,
+    notify: options.notify ?? false,
+  });
+};
+
+const createPersistors = (
+  context: { pipeline: PipelineConfig; source: AnySourceConfig; sourceId: string },
+  factory?: RunSyncCrawlOptions["persistFactory"],
+): Persistor[] => {
+  if (factory) {
+    return factory({
+      pipeline: context.pipeline,
+      source: context.source,
+      resolvedSourceId: context.sourceId,
+    });
+  }
+
+  return [
+    new JsonlPersistor({
+      directory: context.pipeline.paths.data,
+      sourceId: context.sourceId,
+    }),
+  ];
+};
+
+export const runSyncCrawl = async (options: RunSyncCrawlOptions): Promise<void> => {
+  const env = options.env ?? "development";
+  const manager = options.manager ?? new PipelineConfigManager({ env });
+  const pipeline = manager.get(env);
+  manager.setupLogging(pipeline);
+
+  const source = pipeline.sources.find(options.sourceId);
+  if (!source) {
+    throw new Error(`Source '${options.sourceId}' not found in configuration`);
+  }
+
+  const crawlerConfig = resolveCrawlerConfig(source, options);
+  const sourceId = source.source_id ?? options.sourceId;
+  const persistors = createPersistors({ pipeline, source, sourceId }, options.persistFactory);
+
+  const factory = registry.get(source.source_kind as SourceKind);
+  if (!factory) {
+    throw new Error(`No crawler registered for source kind '${source.source_kind}'`);
+  }
+
+  const context: CrawlerContext = {
+    pipeline,
+    source,
+    clientConfig: pipeline.fetch.client,
+    crawlerConfig,
+    persistors,
+  };
+
+  const crawler = factory(context);
+  if (!crawler || typeof crawler.fetch !== "function") {
+    throw new Error("Registered crawler did not return a valid instance");
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await crawler.fetch();
+    logger.info(
+      {
+        sourceId: options.sourceId,
+        kind: source.source_kind,
+        env,
+      },
+      "Synchronous crawl completed",
+    );
+  } finally {
+    for (const persistor of persistors) {
+      try {
+        await persistor.close?.();
+      } catch (error) {
+        logger.warn({ error }, "Failed to close persistor");
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (typeof crawler.close === "function") {
+      try {
+        await crawler.close();
+      } catch (error) {
+        logger.warn({ error }, "Failed to close crawler");
+      }
+    }
+  }
+};