API-first web data tools

Exa

Embeddings-based neural search that finds semantically related pages

Tavily

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

Perplexity Sonar

LLM search API that returns cited answers instead of raw links

You.com

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

Parallel AI

Proprietary web index built for deep multi-hop agent research

Linkup

AI search that licenses publisher content instead of scraping it

Jina AI

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

Seltz

Web knowledge API running its own Rust crawler and hybrid index

Valyu

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

Ceramic

Independent search index behind a single JSON endpoint for agents

NewsCatcher

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

SerpAPI

SERP scraping API covering 80+ search engines since 2017

Serper.dev

Fast Google SERP API priced at a dollar per thousand queries

DataForSEO

SEO data platform pairing SERP results with 50+ other APIs

SearchAPI.io

Multi-engine SERP API with native LangChain and Haystack support

ValueSERP

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

HasData

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

ScrapingDog

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

ScrapeOps

Proxy aggregator and scraper monitoring with a SERP API attached

Zenserp

Google SERP API with image and reverse image search built in

Firecrawl

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

Zyte

Enterprise extraction platform from the team behind Scrapy

ScraperAPI

Handles proxy rotation and JS rendering behind one scraping API

ZenRows

Gets scrapers past CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, and WAF blocks

Scrapeless

Anti-detection scraping API with CAPTCHA solving at low cost

Scrapfly

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

Nimble

Web data platform with native Databricks and Snowflake pipes

Scrapling

Adaptive Python scraper whose selectors survive site redesigns

AnakinScraper

Extracts structured JSON with prebuilt, agent-ready site actions

Webclaw

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

Tabstack

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

Context.dev

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

Browserbase

Cloud browser infrastructure for agents, with the Stagehand SDK

Steel.dev

Open-source browser API with stealth and session management

Browserless

Headless browser platform for scraping, PDFs, and screenshots

Anchor Browser

Browser automation for agents, and a verified Cloudflare bot

Hyperbrowser

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

Browser Use

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

Brave Search API

API for the only independent Western search index at scale

Webz.io

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

Yandex Search API

Programmatic access to Yandex index, dominant across Russia

Diffbot

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

ScrapeGraphAI

Python library that scrapes sites from plain-English prompts

Stagehand

TypeScript SDK for driving browsers with natural-language steps

parse.bot

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

AgentQL

Query language for pulling structured data from any web page

Playwright

Microsoft's cross-browser automation for testing and scraping

Puppeteer

Google's Node.js library for driving headless Chrome

Selenium

Veteran browser automation with bindings for most languages

Crawl4AI

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

Beautiful Soup

Python parser that turns messy HTML into navigable trees

Colly

Fast concurrent scraping framework for Go with a callback API

Mozilla Readability

The library behind Firefox Reader Mode, extracting article text