Business Website Crawler (RAG Automation)

Don’t spend extra time training your AI agent. Power it with information from your website automatically. Our business website crawler extracts and organizes your content, making it instantly usable by AI systems and agents.

Business website crawler turning site content into an AI knowledge base

What is RAG and Website Crawling?

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a combination of large language models (LLMs) and a dynamic knowledge base. It helps your AI provide users with relevant information that it retrieves directly from your website. Don’t add actual information to AI’s knowledge base manually. Instead, let the crawler pull it from your product pages, FAQs, blog posts, and support docs.

Automated Crawling Process

Several steps help our AI website indexing system ensure data quality:

Discovery

The crawler scans provided URLs, follows internal links, and maps your site’s structure. It respects robots.txt rules and avoids disallowed paths.

Content Extraction

It collects text, images, documents, and metadata, as well as detects duplicates and consolidates them to avoid redundancy.

Data Cleaning

RAG “cleans” the data, removing all the noise, including ads, navigation elements, etc.

Structuring and Filtering

Data is structured, and then RAG filters it to prioritize accurate, useful information.

Integration

Data is seamlessly integrated into your AI ecosystem, and the knowledge base is created for customer support or documentation.

The crawler mapping a website and building a structured knowledge base

Respectful Crawling Practices

We prioritize compliance and ensure ethical and responsible website crawling:

  • Full compliance with robots.txt
  • Ethical data collection practices
  • You set content usage permissions
  • Never overwhelms your system
Crawler dashboard showing compliant, rate-limited crawling

How to Get Your Crawler Running

Enter your domain or list of URLs and configure the depth of crawling and filters.

Configure the crawler to your needs. Choose whether you want a one-time crawl or a scheduled crawl, and set filetype and language-based content filters.

Monitor the progress with a real-time dashboard and export data for reports if needed

Setting up the business website crawler step by step

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Our Case Studies

Healthcare: HIPAA-compliant AI assistant (RAG) over a medical video library

Dr. Talks is one of the most prominent organizers of online healthcare conferences and summits.

Ethora enabled them to create a context-aware AI-powered chatbot to help users navigate thousands of pages of medical content, correctly referencing pages, authors, videos and timestamps. 100% secure and HIPAA-compliant.

This assistant enhances user experience by simplifying interaction with the platform and reducing search time.

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  • Vector embeddings enable intelligent domain expert AI responses
Read the case study: Healthcare: HIPAA-compliant AI assistant (RAG) over a medical video library

Healthcare: self-hosted patient messaging for a multi-clinic digital health platform in Canada

VITALL is a Canadian digital health platform used by hospitals, clinics and private practices.

Ethora runs as a self-hosted chat server in VITALL’s own AWS account in Canada, with one isolated tenant per clinic, chat in the practitioner portal and in native iOS, Android and React Native patient apps.

Users, rooms and clinics are provisioned by VITALL’s backend through the Ethora API.

  • Self-hosted in the customer’s AWS account in Canada
  • One isolated tenant per clinic, created by API
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Read the case study: Healthcare: self-hosted patient messaging for a multi-clinic digital health platform in Canada

Insurance: in-app chat for a workers’ comp health insurance provider (HIPAA compliant)

Atom Advantage provides workers’ compensation and health insurance solutions in the United States.

On Ethora they built Atom Connect: secure, case-based chat between injured workers, nurses and case managers, embedded in their claims portal and a white-label mobile app. HIPAA and SOC 2 compatible.

Less manual work for case managers and a better experience for injured workers.

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  • White-label iOS and Android app for injured workers
  • One secure room per claim, created automatically by API
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AI agents on customer websites: support, intake and teaching assistants

Clinics, schools and small businesses build AI agents on Ethora themselves and put them on their own websites, often on the day they sign up.

2 live examples, from a US mental health provider to a university pharmacology course.

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Education: CRM-integrated member community app for an international honour society

Golden Key International Honour Society recognises high-achieving university students through chapters around the world. Its member app connects them across chapters and countries.

Social sign-on is bridged to existing CRM membership records, with verified email account linking and a verifiable trail for educational certificates.

  • Cross-platform iOS and Android app
  • CRM-linked member sign-in
  • Verified email account linking
Read the case study: Education: CRM-integrated member community app for an international honour society

Communities: fan chat app with second-screen rooms and digital collectibles

A cross-platform social app uniting the automotive community around racing events.

Fan rooms for teams and drivers, second-screen events, and collectibles handed out and traded through chat bots.

  • Cross-platform iOS and Android app
  • Fan rooms and second-screen events
  • Collectibles distributed in chat
Read the case study: Communities: fan chat app with second-screen rooms and digital collectibles

FAQ

What is a Business Website Crawler?

A business website crawler (or business website scraper) is a special tool that scans the pages of your website, collects the content, and transforms it into a structured knowledge base. It’s a foundation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents.

What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?

This is the system that enables AI to pull real information from your website or other external sources. This way, AI agents don’t rely solely on pre-trained data and provide more accurate and business-specific answers, eliminating the risk that AI starts making things up.

What types of content can the crawler extract?

Our crawler can extract text from webpages and blogs, images, documents in different formats, and metadata.

Is my website content safe?

Absolutely. Our crawler complies with robot.txt, and you can also set permissions allowing or disallowing it to crawl specific content. Additionally, all data is processed securely, according to regulations like GDPR.

Will the crawler slow down or crash my website?

No, it’s designed to be lightweight and non-intrusive. We implement rate limiting and load-aware crawling to ensure its work won’t affect your website performance.

How often does the crawler run?

It’s up to you. You can run a one-time crawl or set the schedule for the crawler for periodic crawls.

Can I customize what the crawler captures?

Yes, you can set filters by language or types of files, include and exclude pages, and choose the depth of crawling.

How do I track the crawl or see results?

There’s a real-time dashboard in the admin panel that allows you to check the performance of the crawler, track changes, see what was indexed, and export data.

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