3 Scraping Tools That Make AI Actually Useful (Firecrawl, Apify, SerpAPI)

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The ultimate AI scraping tutorial for 2025. Learn how to scrape any website, extract real-time data, and feed it directly into your AI workflows using my complete AI scraping stack: Firecrawl, Apify, and SerpAPI. After 15 years of scraping experience, I’ll show you the exact 3 tools I use to scrape 99% of the internet and turn messy websites into structured, AI-ready data. You’ll learn: - How to use Firecrawl to extract structured content and turn pages into AI-readable Markdown or JSON - How to leverage Apify Actors for large-scale, automated scraping of sites like Google, Reddit, YouTube, or TikTok - How to query search engines with SerpAPI for fresh, enriched, real-time signals - When to use Firecrawl vs Apify vs SerpAPI in your workflow Whether you’re building AI agents, RAG pipelines, lead-gen automations, or data-driven personalization, this “Scrape Anything for AI” guide will help you unlock hidden signals, enrich your data, and make your AI actually see the web. Tools Mentioned (includes some affiliate links that help support the channel at no extra cost to you): - Firecrawl: https://firecrawl.link/remi-taffin - Apify: https://apify.com?fpr=ciq8ac - SerpAPI: https://serpapi.com 👉 Grab the free AI Scraping Guide (with workflows + templates) in my free AI Scraping community, along with all my n8n AI agents for free: https://www.skool.com/the-scraping-edge-6500 Use cases: AI scraping for lead generation • data enrichment • automation • RAG • AI agents • personalization • competitor intelligence • operations scaling • lead intelligence • market intelligence • pricing intelligence Related Videos: - Build a Scraper Agent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFejnfAGiQM - AI Scraping playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnyT830baizXXZAE6-U1QYebT0Y4MbQ0 - How to build an AI Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S2GiiA2oKU Work With Me: Email: remi@hundredfoldgrowth.com Website: https://hundredfoldgrowth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remitaffin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remitaffin_ai Like and subscribe for more content like this! Drop a comment with your favorite scraping trick or the toughest site to scrape! Timestamps: 0:00 – Why AI Needs Scraping (Context + Fresh Data) 1:13 – What Scraping Actually Is (APIs vs Browser) 1:35 – Firecrawl Demo: Turning Any Page into AI-Readable Markdown 2:57 – Apify Actors: Ready-to-use Scrapers at Scale 4:19 – SerpAPI: The Search Engine Expert 5:51 – Integrate to N8N/Make.com 6:11 – Scraping Challenges: Rate Limits, Captchas, Proxies 7:19 – My Best Scraping Tricks After 15 Years 9:44 – Scraping is AI's Secret Weapon + Free Scraping & AI Guide This video is perfect for founders, operators, and growth leaders who want to master AI scraping, web scraping automation, and no-code scraping workflows.