AI-Ready API Documentation Pipeline
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This workflow automates the discovery, scraping, and intelligent chunking of API documentation from the web, preparing it perfectly for AI-driven applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems or custom LLM knowledge bases.
About This Workflow
Unlock the full potential of your AI with structured and relevant API documentation. This n8n workflow streamlines the complex process of finding, extracting, and preparing API reference materials. It leverages advanced web scraping to intelligently search Google for specific API developer documentation, cleans irrelevant content, and then meticulously splits the textual data into optimized chunks. Each chunk is enriched with essential metadata, making it immediately ready for ingestion into vector databases, powering sophisticated AI agents, or building comprehensive internal knowledge bases.
Key Features
- Intelligent API Doc Discovery: Automatically searches Google for precise API developer documentation using dynamic search queries (e.g.,
site:example.com "service" api developer (intext:reference OR intext:resource)). - Clean Web Scraping: Utilizes Apify to scrape entire web pages, intelligently removing boilerplate, images, scripts, and other non-essential content to focus purely on textual documentation.
- Hierarchical Text Chunking: Implements a multi-stage chunking strategy, first dividing large documents into 50k character segments and then refining them into 4k character chunks for optimal processing by LLMs and vector embeddings.
- Metadata Enrichment: Attaches critical context like
serviceandurlto each text chunk, enhancing retrieval accuracy and relevance for downstream AI applications. - Streamlined Data Preparation: Transforms raw web content into structured, AI-ready documents, significantly reducing manual effort in data curation for RAG systems.
How To Use
- Initiate Workflow: Start the workflow manually via the
When clicking ‘Test workflow’node. - Input Data: Provide the initial service
url(e.g.,https://example.com) andservicename (e.g.,MyServiceAPI) in the input data of the manual trigger, or via a preceding node. - Configure Apify Credentials: Ensure your Apify API key is set up as a generic credential for both
Web Search For API SchemaandScrape Webpage Contentsnodes (e.g.,API Tokenin HTTP Header/Query Auth). - Monitor Search Results: The
Web Search For API Schemanode will perform a targeted Google search, returning relevant API documentation links. - Scrape Content: The
Scrape Webpage Contentsnode will then visit each found link, extracting the clean textual content of the documentation page. - Chunk and Prepare: The subsequent
Content Chunking,Split Out Chunks,Default Data Loader, andRecursive Character Text Splitternodes will process, chunk, and add metadata to the scraped content, making it ready for your chosen downstream AI application. - Integrate with Your AI: Connect the output of this workflow (the structured, chunked documents) to your vector database, LLM embedding model, or knowledge base system.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "5b9953a4-12a7-4e0b-88c0-262d9de774d1",
"name": "AI-Ready API Documentation Pipeline",
"nodes": 10,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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