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Crawling vs. Scraping Keeps RAG Costs Capped with Typed JSON
See how crawling maps pages and scraping turns them into structured JSON for AI and RAG, with spend caps and typed failures to keep pipelines predictable.
Run MCP Client Examples First, Then Choose a Transport
Try MCP client examples in TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, or Ruby, compare transport options, and verify a real tool call before building your own.
RAG Ingestion Pipeline: Measure Cost Per Record, Not Just Throughput
Follow RAG ingestion from source cleanup to retrieval, with defaults for chunking, indexing, and measuring cost, throughput, and context quality.
Agent Search APIs: MCP Discovery and Replayable Tests for Developers
Learn how agent search APIs use MCP discovery, search and fetch primitives, and deterministic replay to build and test web enabled agents reliably.
MCP Security: Turn Spec Requirements Into a Checklist in One Week
Map MCP requirements to OAuth, token, and tool output controls; use a checklist to harden deployments in one week before expanding agent access.
Skip Training, Add Guardrails: Zero Shot Web Extraction for Developers
Developers use zero shot web extraction without training examples, then protect results with validation, typed failures, spending caps, and WebDoppler.
Exponential Backoff for Scraping: 3 Jitter Modes, Cost Caps
Learn when to retry scraping errors, compare three jitter strategies, follow server signals, and cap spending to avoid bans and runaway bills.
EDGAR Scraping: Legal for U.S. Developers, but Don’t Bypass Blocks
Learn when EDGAR scraping is legal for U.S. developers, how SEC rate guidance works, and how to build auditable pipelines without bypassing access controls.
Polite Crawling: Developer Defaults for 429s, Crawl Caps, and Audits
Build a polite crawler with bot identification, robots.txt rules, per host pacing, and 429 or 5xx backoff. Set crawl limits and track failures for audits.