How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agents

What if your AI could find and use new tools on its own? See how dynamic tool discovery creates powerful agents that can scrape the modern web.

#1about 1 minute

Why web data is essential for training large language models

LLMs are trained on massive web datasets like Common Crawl, but this leads to knowledge cutoffs and hallucinations.

#2about 2 minutes

How RAG provides LLMs with up-to-date context

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), or context engineering, feeds external, live data to LLMs to produce more accurate and timely answers.

#3about 3 minutes

Navigating the complexities of modern web scraping

Modern websites use dynamic JavaScript rendering and anti-bot measures, requiring headless browsers, proxies, and CAPTCHA solvers to access data.

#4about 2 minutes

Cleaning messy HTML and scaling data extraction

To avoid the 'garbage in, garbage out' problem, you must clean HTML by removing cookie banners and ads, and manage complexities like sitemaps and robots.txt.

#5about 3 minutes

Demo of scraping a website with Apify Actors

A demonstration shows how to use the Apify Website Content Crawler to perform a deep crawl of a website and extract its content into markdown.

#6about 2 minutes

Building a RAG chatbot with scraped data and Pinecone

The scraped website data is uploaded to a Pinecone vector database, enabling a chatbot to answer questions using the site's specific content.

#7about 1 minute

Using the Model Context Protocol for AI agent integration

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a fluid, dynamic interface for AI agents to communicate with and discover tools, unlike static traditional APIs.

#8about 3 minutes