Introduction

What is it?

Lightfeed is an end-to-end web knowledge engine to extract up-to-date web data at scale. Data from Lightfeed is robust and accurate, as we use LLM to understand semantic meaning of web pages in order to extract, index and search.

• 🧠 Extract websites robustly like a human. Lightfeed leverage LLM for semantic reasoning, allowing it to extract complex information hidden in context - something traditional scraping methods can't achieve. It automatically adjusts to changes in website structure - no manual tuning required.
• 🔍 Research and interact like a human. Lightfeed can look up external sources (e.g. Google, LinkedIn) to enrich web data extracted. It navigates and interacts with complex websites autonomously in a headless browser, handling tasks like scrolling and button clicks to access hidden or dynamically loaded content.
• 💡 Continuously index into knowledge bases. It automatically deduplicates the extracted results every day and indexes into user's custom knowledge bases within Lightfeed. We also offer real time API access to query and RAG the knowledge bases.
• ⚡️ Automate any workflows with AI. It automates complex and repetitive workflows on web data extracted, e.g. semantic search via embeddings, keyword filter, asking AI to research external sources, email alert, publishing to RSS.
• 🏗️ Connect to workspaces via 80+ integration providers. Lightfeed easily integrates to 80+ integration providers like CRMs, Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams and many more.

What problem is it solving?

Businesses, regardless of industry, have an immense need for timely and reliable data from the web — whether it’s generating leads, monitoring competitors, tracking customer insights or staying updated with regulatory changes. However, extracting and maintaining web data effectively remains a major challenge due to the following reasons:

1. Web data is highly fragmented and dynamic. It can easily scatter across thousands of sites and change every minute. Manually checking web data or building a pipeline in house is time-and-resource-consuming.
2. Search engine gives outdated or inaccurate results. It can takes days to months for search engine to re-index a site. Their matching algorithm is mainly keyword-based and can generate large numbers of false positive matches. These make them unreliable for critical business data needs.
3. Traditional web extraction methods are brittle and limited. Traditional extraction methods on xpaths and css selectors break easily when websites change. They can only extract data as-it-is without contextual understanding, leading to incomplete or inaccurate data that requires extensive human intervention.

Get started

With Lightfeed, you can turn thousands of websites into your own knowledge base, run custom AI workflows and connect results to your every-day workspaces via integrations. It is no different than human reading and researching on web every day, except it is automated and can scale to any site and any number of sites.

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