Web crawl API for agent-readable pages

    Web Crawl API

    Extract clean page content, metadata, and structured text from any URL so agents can read the live web without brittle scraping.

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    50%
    Lower cost
    Clean
    Page text
    < 500ms
    Response time
    99.9%
    Uptime

    Crawl response preview

    Turn messy web pages into model-ready context.

    POST/web/crawl
    Agent query

    Extract the article body, title, author, publish date, and outbound links from this URL.

    clean markdown
    page metadata
    rendered content
    crawl status

    Response contract

    citations
    structured JSON
    cost metadata
    freshness signals

    See It In Action

    One URL in, full page content out — clean, structured, and AI-ready

    Request
    from desearch_py import Desearch

desearch = Desearch(api_key='your-api-key')

result = await desearch.web_crawl(
  url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence',
  format='html'
)
    Response
    {
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "title": "Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia",
  "content": "<html><head><title>Artificial intelligence...</title></head>...",
  "format": "html",
  "word_count": 18542,
  "status": "success"
}

    Why Choose Desearch?

    Decentralized crawl infrastructure with clean output — built for AI agents and data pipelines

    Architecture
    Desearch
    Decentralized
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    Centralized
    Setup Time
    Desearch
    < 5 minutes
    Other Providers
    Hours
    Cost
    Desearch
    $0.50/1000 pages
    Other Providers
    $1.00+/1000 pages
    Rate Limit
    Desearch
    1000+ req/sec
    Other Providers
    Limited
    Full Page Text
    Desearch
    Yes
    Other Providers
    Raw HTML only
    Structured Data
    Desearch
    Yes
    Other Providers
    Varies
    JavaScript Rendering
    Desearch
    Yes
    Other Providers
    Limited
    Open-source
    Desearch
    Data Validation (Open-source)
    Other Providers
    No

    Savings Calculator

    100,000 pages
    You save
    $50
    per month (50% less)
    Desearch: $50.00Others: $100.00
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    Cases

    From AI agent knowledge bases to competitive intelligence, Desearch Web Crawl API powers content-driven applications at scale

    AI Agent Knowledge

    NEW

    Feed live web content into AI agents and RAG pipelines for grounded, up-to-date responses

    Competitive Intelligence

    Extract and monitor competitor pricing pages, product updates, and announcements automatically

    Content Extraction

    Pull clean article text, author metadata, and publication dates from news and blog pages

    SEO & Rank Tracking

    Crawl landing pages, extract on-page content, and monitor changes over time

    Data Pipeline Ingestion

    Build automated pipelines that ingest, clean, and structure web content at scale

    Research & Aggregation

    Aggregate structured content from multiple sources for research, reports, and analysis

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Everything you need to know about Desearch Web Crawl API

    Desearch Web Crawl API lets you extract clean, structured content from any URL. Given a web page link, it returns the full page text, title, author, publication date, extracted links, and metadata — all as structured JSON. It's built on decentralized infrastructure for high availability and consistent results.

    Create a free account at console.desearch.ai, grab your API key, and start calling our REST endpoint with any URL. We provide Swagger docs, ready-to-paste code snippets in Python and JavaScript, and a cURL example to get you started in under 5 minutes.

    Each crawl response includes the page title, full cleaned text content, author (when available), publication date, extracted outbound links, word count, language, and crawl status. Results are returned as structured JSON, making it ideal for AI pipelines and data ingestion workflows.

    Simple pay-as-you-go: $0.50 per 1000 pages crawled. No monthly fees, no hidden costs, no enterprise minimum. Your costs scale with your usage, making it significantly more affordable than most centralized crawl APIs.

    Yes. Our crawl infrastructure supports dynamic, JavaScript-rendered pages in addition to static HTML. This ensures you can extract content from modern single-page applications and dynamically loaded content.

    We support 1000+ requests per second by default. Unlike traditional crawlers with strict daily caps, we provide generous limits from day one. Need higher throughput? Contact us for custom enterprise limits.

    Every API call triggers a fresh crawl of the provided URL. You always get the current, live version of the page — not a cached or indexed snapshot. This is critical for monitoring pages that change frequently.

    Yes! You get free credits when you sign up — no credit card required. Test our API with real URLs before committing to a paid plan.

    Desearch is built on a decentralized architecture with 256+ providers, which means no single point of failure and unbiased retrieval. We also return clean, AI-ready structured output instead of raw HTML, saving you significant pre-processing time.
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    Totally agree with this, i just connected mine to Bittensor $TAO subnet 22 @desearch_ai with an API end point for X data to help me with subnet analysis and the results are getting where they should be. This could be used by anyone in crypto doing reporting and research and is an incredible opportunity based on pricing.

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    SN22 is becoming an intelligence layer for agents. And behind agents… come predictions, then portfolio management. Revenue + aligned incentives. The market probably hasn't fully priced this yet.

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    The forecasting environments just got richer. Starting this Thursday, miners can choose to take on the cost of news retrieval via @desearch_ai The cost limit will move from $0.02 to $0.1 - making our environments ready for heavy forecasting tasks. #SN6 #TAO

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    // Desearch integration complete crustty now has full social sentiment guidance and its integrated (weighted) in his subnet valuations. All thanks to Bittensor SN22 @desearch_ai Desearch vs. native X API below. I gave him both and asked to research @HermesSubnet, no bias.

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