Decodo launched a Web Data API with one key for AI agents

An AI agent that reads a price list or a rival's catalog needs the page as it is now. The engineering cost of that live read is often more than the agent itself. Decodo, the proxy and scraping company formerly called Smartproxy, launched its Web Data API to shift that cost. The launch was reported by Search Engine Journal.

The API puts scrape, search, map and crawl behind one key. A single account, one invoice, one usage dashboard. Decodo says the four endpoints share one quota. The free tier gives up to 10,000 requests a month, shared across all four. No credit card is required, and the free tier resets each month.

The four endpoints

Decodo describes each endpoint in plain terms. Scrape fetches a single page and returns clean content, through anti-bot protection where present. Search gives live web results and replaces an older Fast Search API. Map lists a site's structure, with up to 147,000 URLs returned in one call, according to the SEJ post. Crawl follows a site's links on its own and collects up to 10,000 pages in one job.

The four run on the same proxy network. Decodo's own page says the network covers over 115 million real-user IPs across more than 195 locations. The Search Engine Journal post cites 125 million IPs; Decodo's current web page is lower. Each endpoint's output is cleaned, so HTML, JSON, CSV or Markdown comes back without boilerplate or navigation.

What people use it for, per Decodo

Decodo lists four worked uses on its own page and in the SEJ post. A retrieval-augmented generation team turns a documentation site into clean Markdown in a single crawl job. A developer building a coding tool uses search to bring live results into an IDE or agent. A legal or research team maps a regulator's site before crawling the relevant documents. A competitive intelligence team repeats map and crawl jobs to monitor a rival's catalog over time.

The company also lists integrations with LangChain, n8n and an MCP server. These are Decodo's own listings. No outside benchmark compares the API to the alternative of building the four pieces in-house.

Vaidotas Juknys, Decodo's CEO, is quoted in the Search Engine Journal post. He says AI startups do not have time to build their own scraping infrastructure. He says the Web Data API gives them one key for the four parts.

Source

• Decodo Launches Web Data API To Give AI Agents Web Access, Search Engine Journal
• Web Data API, Decodo