Data gathering for AI
Articles from the Zyte blog about Data gathering for AI.
Introducing Zyte MCP: Powerful web data gathering for your agent
Zyte MCP brings live web access, structured extraction and Scrapy Cloud operations into coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
Four in 10 sites block AI bots with robots.txt
Nearly four in 10 of the world's top sites are now closed to well-behaved AI crawlers. Here's what operators actually do with robots.txt, and which AI agents they block or welcome.
More data, more trouble: How a perfect corpus corrupted my AI dream
A failed AI experiment reveals why adding more data doesn’t always improve LLM outputs. Learn when web scraping, RAG, and curated datasets actually make AI better.
Balancing innovation and regulation in data scraping
Weighing your options from full control to full service.
What AI Builders Need to Know About the Training Data Copyright Debate
The generative AI gold rush is upon us, with astounding new products and capabilities that are fuelled by web data and raising questions about AI copyright.
Build a better brain - get ready for RAG
Don't just let your LLM browse the web – empower it with the knowledge it needs to truly understand and serve your business.