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RAG

Search Result Source Extraction API: Citation Pipelines

Extract clean text passages with byte offsets, eliminate LLM hallucinations, bypass bot walls, and build citation-ready RAG pipelines with Ollagraph.

33 min read
AI Search

AI Crawler User-Agent Analysis: Bot Parity API

Detect differential rendering, status code divergence, and WAF blocks across AI bots. Audit multi-bot response parity at scale with Ollagraph.

29 min read
AI Search

AI Search Source Selection: How Engines Pick Sources

AI search source selection determines which pages ChatGPT and Perplexity cite. Learn the retrieval, passage scoring, and grounding mechanics with Ollagraph.

33 min read
SEO

SEO Analysis API: Turn Crawl Data Into Prioritized Fixes

SEO Analysis API pipelines turn raw crawl data, DOM snapshots, and rendering telemetry into prioritized engineering tasks. Score technical debt with Ollagraph.

31 min read
SEO

SEO Audit for JavaScript-Heavy Sites: Blindspots

SEO audit for JavaScript-heavy sites reveals why static crawlers miss hydrated DOM content, dynamic links, and schema. Learn how to audit modern web apps.

33 min read
AI Search

Snippet Candidate Extraction API: How to Find and Prioritize Pages for AI Search

Discover, audit, score, and prioritize web pages for AI search engines, position-zero answers, and LLM citations with the Snippet Candidate Extraction API.

31 min read
AEO

Featured Snippet Opportunity API: How to Find and Prioritize Position-Zero Opportunities

Featured Snippet Opportunity API enables engineering teams to programmatically find, score, and capture Position-Zero search results using Ollagraph.

30 min read
Guides

Website Security Scorecard API: How to Quantify Website Risk at Scale

Quantify external website risk at scale with automated security audits across SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, DNSSEC, SRI, and cookies via Ollagraph.

30 min read
RAG

Data Privacy Audit for AI: What GDPR/CCPA Mean for Web Scraping Pipelines

Scraping web data for AI and RAG does not bypass GDPR or CCPA. Learn how to audit pipelines, scrub PII, enforce provenance, and build compliant scrapers.

31 min read
Guides

Website Security Audit API: How to Scan Thousands of Websites at Scale

Scan thousands of websites for TLS configurations, security headers, subresource integrity, and RFC 9116 security.txt with a unified security audit API.

31 min read
AEO

Building a Machine-Readable Website: The Technical Specification for AI Bots

Technical specification for AI-ready sites: robots.txt, semantic HTML, entity contracts, and markdown mirrors to maximize crawler extraction and citations.

26 min read
AI Search

Why Your Best SEO Content Is Invisible to AI Search Engines — And How to Fix It

Ranking #1 on Google doesn’t mean ChatGPT or Perplexity will cite you. Learn why SEO-winning pages stay invisible to AI search—and how to fix extractability.

31 min read
AI Search

How LLMs Index the Web: From Crawler Fetch Queues to Vectorized Knowledge Graphs

Learn the complete indexing pipeline used by LLM crawlers: URL queues, content extraction, chunking, embedding, and vectorized retrieval graphs.

27 min read
AEO

Structured Data for AI Overviews: Which Schema Signals Matter Most?

Learn which Schema.org types and properties reduce ambiguity and improve citation confidence in Google AI Overviews, and which waste crawl budget.

27 min read
AEO

AI Crawler Regression Testing: How to Detect AEO Problems After Website Deployments

Learn how AI crawler regression testing detects AEO problems after website deployments across WAF, JavaScript rendering, and AI search visibility.

18 min read
Guides

Integrating MCP Web Tools into LangGraph Autonomous Multi-Agent Workflows

Connect LangGraph multi-agent swarms to Ollagraph's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for stateful, real-time web search, JS scraping, and RAG retrieval.

22 min read
Guides

How to Connect Cursor IDE to a Web Search MCP Server Using Ollagraph

Configure Cursor IDE with Ollagraph's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for live multi-engine web search, real-time scraping, and RAG context injection.

23 min read
SEO

Broken Links Checker API: Detect and Fix 404s at Scale

Detect and remediate broken links and 404 errors across enterprise domains with an automated broken links checker API and CI/CD workflows.

28 min read
SEO

Meta Audit API for Title Tags, Descriptions, and Open Graph

Automate meta tag audits across thousands of URLs. Detect title truncation, description issues, and missing Open Graph cards before deployments.

28 min read
SEO

Redirect Chain Audit: How to Find and Fix Loops

Identify and resolve redirect chains, circular loops, and crawl budget bottlenecks with an automated redirect audit API and edge rule tests.

28 min read
SEO

Schema Markup Validator API: Validate JSON-LD at Scale

Automate JSON-LD validation across thousands of pages, catch schema errors before deployment, and protect rich results at scale.

30 min read
SEO

SEO Audit API vs Manual Audits: Cost, Speed, Accuracy

We benchmarked API-driven and manual SEO audits across 500 sites to compare cost, speed, and accuracy, and show when each wins.

29 min read
SEO

Run a Full Website SEO Audit in One API Call

Audit meta tags, links, redirects, schema, readability, and mixed content with one Ollagraph API call. Get structured findings in seconds.

27 min read
Guides

Browser Automation APIs: The Complete Developer Guide

Use managed browsers to render dynamic JavaScript, handle persistent sessions, and extract web data without managing headless infrastructure.

19 min read
Guides

Browser Automation Observability at Scale

Monitor headless browser fleets with metrics, traces, logs, and alerts. Catch leaks and silent failures before they become outages.

26 min read
Guides

Browser Session Management API for Persistent Automation

Persistent browser contexts keep logins and storage alive across steps. They cut cold starts, lower cost, and make multi-step automation reliable.

22 min read
Guides

Company Intelligence Pipelines for Reliable Firmographic Data

Turn public websites into validated company profiles. Extract firmographics, contacts, and tech stack with schema gates and enrichment.

20 min read
Guides

Headless Browser API: Automate Browsers at Scale

Run rendered browser jobs without managing browser farms. Learn how Ollagraph uses CDP, sessions, and stealth controls to scale reliably.

24 min read
Guides

Headless Chrome as a Service: Build vs Buy Browser Infrastructure

The spreadsheet favors building. Reality favors reliability. Learn when to build, when to buy, and how to migrate browser infrastructure without downtime.

30 min read
Guides

LLM-Powered Browser Automation: How Agents Control the Web

How AI agents use browser automation to replace brittle selectors with semantic control. Learn when it works, where it fails, and how to ship it safely.

29 min read
Guides

Reliable Web Data Pipelines: From Crawl to Validated JSON

Learn how to build reliable web data pipelines from crawling through validated JSON with quality gates, observability, and self-healing retries.

26 min read
Guides

Rendering Before Extraction: Reliable Web Data Pipelines

Rendering is the failure-prone layer between fetch and extraction. Learn readiness checks, browser pooling, and quality signals that prevent silent bad data.

26 min read
Guides

Static Fetch vs Headless Browser: How to Choose

Choose static fetch for server-rendered HTML and a browser when JavaScript builds the page. A hybrid flow keeps scraping fast and reliable.

24 min read
Guides

Document-to-JSON Extraction for Typed Web Records

Learn how to turn unstructured web pages and PDFs into validated, strongly-typed JSON records. Eliminate schema drift and power production AI pipelines.

25 min read
Guides

E-commerce Data Extraction for Variants, Prices, and Stock

Learn how to extract structured product data, variants, and stock status from e-commerce sites at scale with schema validation and JS rendering.

27 min read
AI Search

Entity Extraction for AI Agents: Turn Web Pages into Facts

Extract companies, people, and products from web pages with entity resolution and disambiguation so AI agents can act on clean, typed data.

28 min read
Guides

Evidence-Based Data Extraction: Provenance for Every Field

Learn how to implement field-level provenance tracking in data extraction pipelines with JSON schemas, confidence scoring, and quality gates.

34 min read
Guides

How to Extract Structured Data from JavaScript Apps

Use state sniffing, network capture, and schema checks to pull clean records from modern JavaScript apps without brittle scraping.

28 min read
Guides

Structured Data Extraction API for Validated JSON

Turn messy web pages into validated JSON with schema contracts, evidence packets, and quality gates. Built for trust in downstream systems.

31 min read
RAG

Structured Data Extraction for RAG: Web Pages to Queryable Facts

Learn how structured data extraction turns web pages into queryable entities and relationships, enabling precise, citeable answers for RAG.

34 min read
Guides

Why Schema-Driven Extraction Beats CSS Selectors

CSS selectors break when layouts shift. Schema-driven extraction validates every record, reduces silent corruption, and makes failures debuggable.

25 min read
RAG

Document-to-Markdown Pipelines for AI Knowledge Bases

Build reliable batch conversion pipelines with idempotency, validation gates, and quarantine/replay to keep AI knowledge bases clean.

28 min read
Guides

How to Extract Tables from Any Website to JSON

Turn HTML and CSS-based tables into clean JSON, see where DIY parsing breaks, and learn when Ollagraph's API is the safer choice.

28 min read
RAG

JavaScript Rendering to Deterministic Markdown for AI Content

Render dynamic pages only when content is ready, then convert them into stable Markdown for reliable AI ingestion. Fail closed when signals are weak.

15 min read
RAG

PDF to Markdown for RAG: Preserve Tables and Structure

Convert PDFs into AI-ready Markdown that preserves tables, headings, reading order, and citations for stronger RAG retrieval.

17 min read
RAG

XLSX to Markdown for RAG: A Production Conversion Blueprint

Convert Excel workbooks into AI-ready Markdown with deterministic normalization, validation gates, and replay-safe processing for RAG pipelines.

31 min read