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The web data tool directory

The directory for web scraping and AI data tools

87 search APIs, extraction tools, and browser platforms across 8 categories, reviewed for teams building AI products that read the web.

Curated by Nathan Kessler · Read weekly by AI product builders

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Embeddings-based neural search that finds semantically related pages

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Real-time search API built for AI agents and RAG pipelines

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

LLM search API that returns cited answers instead of raw links

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Composable web, news, and research search APIs for enterprise agents

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Proprietary web index built for deep multi-hop agent research

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

AI search that licenses publisher content instead of scraping it

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Reader API that turns any URL into clean markdown, now part of Elastic

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Model-agnostic web search you add to any LLM in one call

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Ad-free, privacy-first AI search that answers rather than lists links

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Self-hosted metasearch that aggregates results from 70+ engines

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

Web knowledge API running its own Rust crawler and hybrid index

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedJun 2026

Search API spanning the web plus arXiv, PubMed, and SEC filings

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedJun 2026

Independent search index behind a single JSON endpoint for agents

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedJun 2026

Recall-first news and web search across 140,000+ sources

CategoryAI-Native Search APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMay 2026

SERP scraping API covering 80+ search engines since 2017

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Fast Google SERP API priced at a dollar per thousand queries

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

SEO data platform pairing SERP results with 50+ other APIs

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Multi-engine SERP API with native LangChain and Haystack support

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Low-cost SERP API with batch jobs up to 15,000 requests

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

SERP API wired into Zapier and Make.com for no-code pipelines

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Volume-priced SERP API that drops toward 29 cents per thousand

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Proxy aggregator and scraper monitoring with a SERP API attached

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Google SERP API with image and reverse image search built in

CategorySERP Data APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Turns any website into LLM-ready markdown via a single API

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
Stars132K+

Scraping platform with a marketplace of 10,000+ prebuilt Actors

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Enterprise extraction platform from the team behind Scrapy

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Handles proxy rotation and JS rendering behind one scraping API

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Gets scrapers past CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, and WAF blocks

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Anti-detection scraping API with CAPTCHA solving at low cost

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Fully managed scraping service with SLAs and human QA

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingEnterprise
AddedMar 2026

Bundles anti-bot bypass, rendering, and screenshots into one API

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Web data platform with native Databricks and Snowflake pipes

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Adaptive Python scraper whose selectors survive site redesigns

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFree
Stars63K+

Extracts structured JSON with prebuilt, agent-ready site actions

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedApr 2026

Rust page-to-markdown API that skips the headless browser

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
Stars1.4K+

Mozilla's web execution API routing from raw fetch to full browser

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedMay 2026

URL-to-markdown API with an added brand-data layer for agents

CategoryWeb Crawl & Data Extraction APIs
PricingFreemium
AddedJul 2026

Cloud browser infrastructure for agents, with the Stagehand SDK

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Open-source browser API with stealth and session management

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Headless browser platform for scraping, PDFs, and screenshots

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
Stars13K+

Browser automation for agents, and a verified Cloudflare bot

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Browser-as-a-service with natural-language control and fast launches

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Natural-language cloud browser with SOC2 and HIPAA compliance

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Zig-built headless browser using far less memory than Chrome

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFree
Stars31K+

Autoscaling browsers with anti-bot detection and reusable sessions

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Hands any website to an AI agent, the top browser-automation repo

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
Stars98K+

Anti-detect browser with fingerprint control and a headless API

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Patches Chromium to run automation that bot detectors miss

CategoryBrowser Infrastructure
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

API for the only independent Western search index at scale

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Nonprofit web archive of 9.5 petabytes behind most major LLMs

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

UK search engine with its own index and a no-tracking pledge

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Structured feeds of news, forum, and dark-web content for enterprise

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingEnterprise
AddedMar 2026

Programmatic access to Yandex index, dominant across Russia

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Open-source search you re-rank yourself, built on its own index

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

Search engine for the text-heavy old web Google buries

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

French GDPR-native search running its own partial index

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Open, decentralized index aiming to rival Google and Bing

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

Long-running open-source search engine with its own web index

CategoryIndependent Web Indexes
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

Vision and NLP parsing behind a 10-billion-entity knowledge graph

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Python library that scrapes sites from plain-English prompts

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
Stars27K+

TypeScript SDK for driving browsers with natural-language steps

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFree
Stars23K+

Describe the data you need and get a REST API for any site

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

One API that generates self-updating extraction workflows

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Automates multi-step data extraction across many websites

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Auto-generates extraction logic with no selectors or code

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

AI agent that navigates and extracts using vision and LLMs

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
Stars21K+

Query language for pulling structured data from any web page

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
AddedMar 2026

Turns unstructured web content into structured enterprise datasets

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingPaid
AddedMar 2026

Point-and-click robots that extract and monitor any site

CategoryAgentic Extraction
PricingFreemium
AddedJun 2026

The original Python framework for large-scale web crawling

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars62K+

Microsoft's cross-browser automation for testing and scraping

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars90K+

Google's Node.js library for driving headless Chrome

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars94K+

Apify's crawling library wrapping Playwright and Puppeteer

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars23K+

Veteran browser automation with bindings for most languages

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars34K+

Open-source crawler shaped for RAG, the most-starred on GitHub

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars68K+

Python parser that turns messy HTML into navigable trees

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

jQuery-style HTML parsing for Node.js, no browser required

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars30K+

Fast concurrent scraping framework for Go with a callback API

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars25K+

Pairs Requests and Beautiful Soup for form-driven scraping

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars4.9K+

Lightweight async scraping from HTTPx plus Scrapy Parsel

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
AddedMar 2026

Strips nav, ads, and chrome to leave the main article text

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars6.1K+

The library behind Firefox Reader Mode, extracting article text

CategoryOpen Source Frameworks
PricingFree
Stars11K+

Benchmark testing browser agents on 153 tasks across 144 live sites

CategoryBenchmarks
PricingFree
AddedApr 2026

812 long-horizon web tasks on reproducible self-hosted sites

CategoryBenchmarks
PricingFree
AddedMay 2026

643 live-web tasks measuring end-to-end multimodal agents

CategoryBenchmarks
PricingFree
AddedMay 2026

2,350 tasks across 137 sites measuring cross-domain transfer

CategoryBenchmarks
PricingFree
AddedMay 2026

369 computer-use tasks spanning Ubuntu, Windows, and macOS

CategoryBenchmarks
PricingFree
AddedMay 2026

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Bright Data is the largest traditional proxy and web data vendor, built around residential IP infrastructure rather than AI-native developer experience. Most teams who land here are evaluating whether the legacy enterprise contract is still the right fit for an AI product, or whether a newer scraping API can do the same job with cleaner integration and lower per-page cost.

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Oxylabs is the European enterprise scraping platform with a near-identical product matrix to Bright Data: Web Scraper API, SERP API, E-Commerce API, Web Unblocker, plus residential and mobile proxies. Teams evaluating Oxylabs typically reach this page when the enterprise contract feels like overkill for what their AI product actually needs.

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Decodo rebranded from Smartproxy in April 2025 and now markets itself as an AI-ready proxy and scraping platform, but the foundation and pricing stay proxy-bandwidth-first. Its flagship residential product bills per GB, which is hard to map to an AI workload measured in pages or documents. Teams land here when the AI layer (AI Parser, MCP server, n8n node, Markdown output) turns out to be bolted onto proxy infrastructure rather than a purpose-built extraction API, and they want a single clean call that returns LLM-ready data.

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Teams that shortlist ScrapingBee are usually building an AI agent or pipeline that needs to fetch and read arbitrary web pages. ScrapingBee is a request-based scraping API that bundles proxies, headless-Chrome rendering, and anti-bot bypass behind one endpoint. It is a low-level HTML fetcher, but its credit-multiplier pricing and weak success rate on defended targets push many builders toward tools that return LLM-ready data directly. The alternatives below are all in our directory and lead with that AI-native posture.

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