AI Agent
An AI agent is an autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to accomplish goals — including browsing the web, running tools, and calling APIs.
Web scrapers are increasingly used as tools for AI agents, providing them with real-time data from any website on demand.
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MCP (Model Context Protocol)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard developed by Anthropic that enables AI models to connect to external tools and data sources through a standardized interface.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
RAG is an AI architecture where a language model's responses are grounded by retrieving relevant documents from a knowledge base at inference time.
Web Scraping
Web scraping is the automated extraction of structured data from websites.