Reworkd Scales Real-Time Web Scraping With Data Streaming and GenAI

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This post details how Reworkd leverages Confluent's Data Streaming Platform for real-time web scraping and processing for GenAI applications. Key technical contributions include: streaming scraped data into Kafka topics for validation and transformation, using Schema Registry for data governance and consistency, implementing shift-left stream processing for deduplication and data validation, and integrating Kafka with ClickHouse via Kafka Connect and Debezium for change data capture (CDC) into a data warehouse. The post also describes how Reworkd uses AI agents to automate web scraping code generation and validation, feeding the processed data through Confluent for near-real-time availability via a REST API.