Guides
Practical guides to web scraping, AI extraction and getting clean data into your pipelines.
Web Scraping MCP Servers Compared: Firecrawl, Apify & More
Install configs, tools and costs for the Firecrawl, Apify, Bright Data, Browserbase and Crawl4AI MCP servers, and which one to give your AI agent.
AI Web Scraping: What It Is, How It Works and When It's Worth It
What AI web scraping actually changes, where it still fails, and how to decide between selectors, a scraping API and LLM extraction. Includes working code.
How to Extract Structured JSON from Any Website (Without Writing Selectors)
Three ways to turn a web page into clean JSON, from CSS selectors to LLM extraction, with working code and the trade-offs of each approach.
Firecrawl Alexandria Explained: What It Is, How It Works and What It Costs
Firecrawl's Alexandria gives AI agents one search across official data providers, specialised indexes and the live web. How it works, code examples, pricing and when to use it.
How to Scrape a Website Without Getting Blocked (2026 Guide)
Why scrapers get blocked and what fixes each cause, from headers and rate limits to TLS fingerprints, proxies and headless browsers, with working code.