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Ayan Pahwa

Ayan is a developer advocate at Zyte.

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Code is cheap, show me the talk: How copilots are re-engineering developers

Mastery of computer code used to be an engineer’s differentiator. Thanks to AI assistants, code is now the commodity, sensibility is the real premium.

Build your own MCP server: LLMs meets web data with Zyte API

Learn how to build your own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to connect LLMs with real-time web data using Zyte API, FastMCP, and the Docker MCP toolkit.

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Brewing a bot: RAG and web data fuel the perfect coffee recommendation

Learn how to build a real-time AI chatbot using RAG, web scraping, Zyte API, LangChain, and OpenAI. Scrape JavaScript-heavy websites, store data in a vector database, and generate accurate answers from fresh web data.

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Scraping Swiss Army Knife: My personal fix for web setup fatigue using Docker, Scrapy and Zyte

Tired of repeating web scraping setup? Learn how a multi-arch Docker container with Scrapy, Zyte, Requests, and Pandas speeds up exploration and debugging.

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How I trade gold using e-ink, live data and an old Raspberry Pi

Track real-world gold and silver retail prices automatically using Zyte API, Python, and a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display. Learn how to scrape rendered HTML, parse prices, and build an always-on trading dashboard.