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.
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Model Context Protocol
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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 readBright 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 readI gave my Actor a delivery address: shipping results with MCP connectors
A build log of adding MCP connector delivery to a pay-per-result Actor, from the input schema and argument mapping to a live delivery into Notion.
Apify Blog16 min readMCP 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 readNew 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 read10 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 readAI 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 readClaude refused to rank my Google Trends data. Then it invented the ranking anyway
Google Trends scores every request against its own top term, so separate batches cannot be ranked together. Claude knew that, then guessed anyway. A calibrated Apify Actor fixed it.
Apify Blog11 min readHow to ground a LlamaIndex RAG app in fresh web data
Scrape a website into LlamaIndex with Apify, update the index without re-embedding unchanged pages, and stop partial crawls from deleting pages that still exist.
Apify Blog22 min readGive 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 readI 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 readApify 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 readWhat 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 readHow to build an AliExpress price monitor
Build a tracker that scrapes a category on a schedule and logs every run into Google Sheets, no code required.
Apify Blog9 min readApify 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 readTavily vs. Apify's RAG Web Browser
We tested Tavily against RAG Web Browser on real research queries. One retrieved 8.4x more evidence for $0.115 per 4 queries. See the results.
Apify Blog9 min readChatGPT web scraping guide for 2026
You need the data, but collecting it has become a chore. Let ChatGPT and Apify handle the work for you.
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