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Calm, practical articles that help developers turn websites into Markdown, cleaned text, or HTML — for LLMs and automation.

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What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

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What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

Learn about RAG, a powerful technique that improves AI responses by combining language models with real-time information retrieval, making AI answers more accurate and up-to-date.

Apr 12, 2025•3 min read

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What is webcrawling API?

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What is webcrawling API?

Web crawling API allows developers to retrieve web data efficiently and programmatically, enabling the extraction of content from a website.

Apr 16, 2024•1 min read

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What is the difference between web crawling and scraping?

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What is the difference between web crawling and scraping?

Scraping and crawling are techniques used to automate data retrieval from the Web. Though they are slightly different, both have different goals and processes.

Apr 10, 2024•2 min read

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5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Won

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5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Won

Five well-known court cases that favored scraping/crawling (or narrowed anti-scraping theories), plus practical takeaways on public data, CFAA, copyright, and EU database rights.

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What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

What is webcrawling API?

What is webcrawling API?

What is the difference between web crawling and scraping?

What is the difference between web crawling and scraping?

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5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Won

5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Won

5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Lost

5 Famous Web Scraping Court Cases Where Scrapers Lost

How dom_smoozie Rust Mozilla Readability alternative works

How dom_smoozie Rust Mozilla Readability alternative works

How to Convert Any Website to an RSS Feed

How to Convert Any Website to an RSS Feed

BeautifulSoup4 Web Crawler

BeautifulSoup4 Web Crawler

YAML vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

YAML vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

YAML vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

YAML vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs YAML: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs YAML: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs JSON: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs JSON: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

Markdown vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs YAML: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs YAML: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

JSON vs CSV: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

HTML vs Cleaned Text vs Markdown: Which Should Be Used for RAG?

HTML vs Cleaned Text vs Markdown: Which Should Be Used for RAG?

HTML vs Cleaned Text: Choosing the Right Output Format

HTML vs Cleaned Text: Choosing the Right Output Format

CSV vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

CSV vs Plain Text: Choosing the Right Format for LLM Prompts

How to crawl the website with Python

How to crawl the website with Python

Web Scraping Ethics: What is legal and what is not?

Mozilla Readability Algorithm (Readability.js) explanation

What is Shadow DOM? (And How to Scrape It)

Extracting article or blogpost content with Mozilla Readability

How AI FlowChat uses WebCrawlerAPI to add context to users' flows

What is Cloudflare Web Crawler?

Top 6 Web Scraping APIs in 2025

The Top 3 Best Screenshot APIs to Use in 2026

The Top 3 Best Screenshot APIs to Use in 2026

What is an llms.txt File?

What is an llms.txt File?

JavaScript Rendering in Web Crawling

JavaScript Rendering in Web Crawling

How to Build a Web Crawler

How to Build a Web Crawler

Top 6 best Firecrawl alternatives

Cleaned text vs Markdown: Choosing the Right Output Format for AI

Cleaned text vs Markdown: Choosing the Right Output Format for AI

HTML vs Markdown: Choosing the Right Output Format for AI

HTML vs Markdown: Choosing the Right Output Format for AI

How to crawl website with PHP

How to crawl website with PHP

What is webcrawling?

What is webcrawling?

How to Crawl Website with .NET and C#

How to Crawl Website with .NET and C#

Best Web Crawler API in 2025

Best Web Crawler API in 2025

Python vs Node.js: Which is Better for Web Crawling?

Python vs Node.js: Which is Better for Web Crawling?

The Best Data Format for Your Prompt

The Best Data Format for Your Prompt

How to upload website content to ChatGPT

How to upload website content to ChatGPT

How to extract XPath in Golang