How to do question answering from a PDF with Python and RAG
Build a Python pipeline that answers questions from PDFs and links each answer to its page, then check the citations before you trust them.
Apify Blog29 min read
AI agents
14 stories
How I turned a Spanish public-tenders scraper into a tool my AI agent can call
How a developer who bids on Spanish public contracts filtered the PLACSP tender feed into something an AI agent can query, then connected his Actor to Claude Desktop through the Apify MCP server.
Apify Blog10 min read
Bright Data vs. Apify for AI agents and automation
Bright Data and Apify both help builders get web data into AI agents and automated workflows. Their approaches differ in what they offer, how you use their tools, and how you pay for them.
Apify Blog15 min read
ParseForge aimed for 1,000 Actors by 2027. It hit 2,000 in 2026.
A team of four built 2,000 Actors well ahead of schedule, and its Actor Factory now ships a new one in about an hour.
Apify Blog5 min read
MCP for beginners: what it is and how it works
Learn what Model Context Protocol is, how MCP hosts, clients, and servers work together, and how to connect your first AI agent to Apify MCP.
Apify Blog8 min read
New Apify Store categories: browse by the job, filter by what you get back
Apify Store categories are being rebuilt around the job you're trying to do - a use-case tree plus filters for industry, site, output, and Actor type.
Apify Blog3 min read
10 best AI tools for real estate investors: Complete 2026 guide
Compare 10 AI tools for real estate investors, from deal sourcing and rental analysis to valuations and CRE deal management, with features, reviews, and pricing.
Apify Blog15 min read
AI agent vs. MCP server: which one should you build?
An AI agent and an MCP server are two parts of one system. Here's what each one owns, what a connection costs in context, and which one you should build.
Apify Blog21 min read
Give your LangGraph agent real-time web data with Apify
Connect a LangGraph agent to Apify through the official langchain-apify integration or Apify MCP Server, and give it real-time web search, scraping, and social media data.
Apify Blog13 min read
I gave my Reddit Actor to an AI agent, and it made all the same mistakes I did
I connected my Apify Actor to an AI agent over the Apify MCP server. It ran, returned data, and the data was garbage. Nothing was broken: every failure traced back to something my input schema never said. Four description rewrites later, the agent picks the right settings on its own.
Apify Blog11 min read
Apify vs. Firecrawl: how Firecrawl compares to the Apify Actors built for the same job
Features, pricing, and crawl options side by side, plus a look at Firecrawl's new Alexandria library and when each platform is the better pick.
Apify Blog16 min read
What the Apify MCP server does to your Actor before an AI agent ever sees it
One of my popular Actors is a LinkedIn Sales Navigator scraper. It has dozens of users, but is also completely unusable by an AI agent, and I did not know that until I checked.
Apify Blog17 min read
Apify vs. Exa: which gives AI agents better access to web data?
Choose your AI agent’s web tools based on actual evidence. Compare what Apify and Exa returned, what they missed, how long each task took, and how much it cost.
Apify Blog14 min read
Parallel’s Extract API vs. Apify’s Web Fetch: how agents read the web
The real choice is not marketplace vs. retrieval API, but whether your agent primarily needs fast, search-oriented web retrieval or direct, controllable extraction from the source.
Apify Blog6 min read
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