Building an MCP Server for Web Data Access
Design your MCP server to handle retrieval and representation separately.
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Before joining parsedweb, Soren Marlowe spent 18 years on the beat; today the focus is Web Scraping, Agent Web Tooling.
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Design your MCP server to handle retrieval and representation separately.
Learn how to structure tools and resources to build web-data servers that work with any AI client.
Discover which scraping technique works for each JavaScript rendering pattern.
Reliable data extraction at scale keeps AI agents from drowning in bad inputs.
Extract names and money from messy web pages with spaCy's entity recognition.
Duplicate detection cuts wasted crawls by filtering at the right stage.
Iterative agents outperform single-pass retrieval on complex reasoning tasks.
Cascading errors in agent workflows compound at each reasoning step.
One system stops after a single response, while the other keeps searching until it's satisfied.