Building a No-Code Data Preprocessing Pipeline with Firecrawl and Unstructured MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new standard introduced by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants to various systems such as content repositories and business tools, facilitating seamless data workflows. This blog post highlights the practical application of MCP using Unstructured MCP integration, which recently incorporated Firecrawl support to enable data retrieval from websites, processing it into a searchable format without the need for coding. It guides the reader through setting up the MCP server, using Firecrawl for website crawling, and employing the Unstructured API to process and store data in AstraDB. By leveraging MCP's capabilities, a workflow is established that allows for easy querying of indexed data using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), demonstrating how this protocol simplifies complex data processing tasks through natural language interactions.