Decodo, a foremost provider of web data infrastructure, has introduced the Web Data API, which puts scraping, mapping, crawling, and hunt rearward a sole API key. Designed for AI startups construction agents or retrieval pipelines, its sole interface delivers fresh, organized web data.
“AI startups don’t have period to build their own abrasion infrastructure,” noted Decodo CEO Vaidotas Juknys. “The Web Data API gives them one key for scraping, searching, mapping, and crawling. That’s small period on infrastructure and additional period on the product.”
Data Challenge Facing Most AI Agents
Language models train on a fixed data snapshot. Agents tracking a company, a news feed, or a cost catalog need up-to-date data. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) likewise relies on how caller the retrieved documents are.
Pulling live pages method operating scrapers rearward rotating IPs, getting former CAPTCHAs and bot detection, followed by cleaning up incomplete pages and stripping navigation, ads, and boilerplate from any comes back. Building this infrastructure or assembling idiosyncratic tools takes engineering period distant from products.
Meet The Web Data API
Decodo developed the Web Data API to eliminate that additional work, bringing four endpoints on one document and one API key. Separate scraping, search, mapping, and crawling contracts are no longer necessary. Each endpoint addresses a distinct phase in the web data gathering process.
- Scrape retrieves a sole page’s spotless content, equal through anti-bot protection.
- Search delivers live web results, replacing the earlier offered Fast Search API.
- Map reveals a site’s structure; all call can come back up to 147,000 URLs.
- Crawl automatically follows a site’s links, collecting up to 10K pages inside a sole job.
One Vendor For All 4 Endpoints
Because the four run on one key, a squad gets one invoice, one dashboard, and one location to peruse usage. Each is supported by Decodo’s proxy network of complete 125 myriad IPs spanning 195+ locations.
It additionally shortens procurement: one vendor to vet, one assistance queue for billing and specialized questions, one integration for new hires to learn.
How Teams Are Already Using The 4 Endpoints
The four endpoints are already accessible for applicable workflows tailored to all user’s needs:
- RAG teams change a records location to spotless Markdown for embedding through a sole crawl job.
- Developers creating coding tools use hunt to bring live results into an IDE or an agent.
- Legal and investigation teams find documents by mapping a regulator’s location before crawling those documents.
- Competitive intellect teams regularly reiterate map and crawl jobs to detect a rival’s catalog complete time.
The finest part is that all these workflows run without needing a distinct abrasion stack.
Start Here
Decodo provides up to 10,000 liberated requests per month, alongside one quota shared by all four endpoints, without requiring a credit card. This quota resets all month, so a squad can run a genuine aviator before deciding on a paid tier.
For AI startups comparing the period and prosperity needed for in-house abrasion infrastructure alongside licensing it, Web Data API brings leaf extraction together alongside search, discovery, and crawling in one integration. The liberated tier lets teams measure how it fits inside their existing stack.
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