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 collapse: why AI models degrade and how to prevent it
AI models trained on AI-generated data lose rare words and facts first. Learn what the research shows, see our GPT-2 test, and build a pipeline that keeps real data in every round.
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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.
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Grundwerk Digital finds the leads B2B databases miss with Apify
“There’s no other possibility than using Apify.” How a Berlin outbound agency reaches the businesses no database lists, and checks every prospect before it writes.
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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.
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RAG Web Browser vs. Jina AI: which one gives an LLM better evidence?
Comparing Apify's RAG Web Browser with Jina AI Search: one query, same LLM briefing task. Which one retrieved more usable evidence, and what did it cost?
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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.
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I 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.
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Oxylabs vs. Bright Data (for web scraping)
Oxylabs and Bright Data are known for their proxy services and have recently invested in web scraping. How do they compare?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Getting data for training AI
Six ways to collect data for training AI models, plus the problems and benefits of each method.
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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.
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Claude 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.
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Martina Gelnerová: from travel agency to data analyst
Apify mentors a team at every Czechitas Digital Academy. Martina Gelnerová was one of those students, and now she mentors there herself.
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How 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.
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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.
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