Key points
- Decodo's Web Data API combines scrape, search, map and crawl endpoints under one API key, one invoice and one dashboard.
- Map returns up to 147,000 URLs per call; Crawl collects up to 10K pages in a single job.
- Search replaces the earlier Fast Search API; the network behind it spans 125 million+ IPs in 195+ locations.
- Free tier offers up to 10,000 requests per month, shared across all endpoints, with no credit card required.
Why it matters for marketers: Teams building agents or RAG pipelines can test live web access from one vendor and one quota, instead of stitching together separate scraping, search and crawling tools.
Decodo, a web data infrastructure provider, has launched the Web Data API, which puts four functions behind one API key: scraping a page, searching the web, mapping a site's structure and crawling its links. The company aims it at AI startups building agents or retrieval pipelines that need fresh, structured data.
Each endpoint covers one stage of collecting web data. Scrape returns clean content from a single page, including pages with anti-bot protection. Search returns live results and replaces Decodo's earlier Fast Search API. Map lists a site's URLs, and Crawl follows links to gather pages in one job. All four run on Decodo's proxy network.
For marketers and content teams, the practical draw is consolidation. Agents that track competitors, news or price lists depend on current pages, and language models alone work from a fixed snapshot. Decodo says one account means a single invoice, dashboard and support queue, which may also shorten vendor review. Example uses it cites include converting a documentation site to Markdown for embedding and repeating map and crawl jobs to watch a rival's catalog over time.
Decodo CEO Vaidotas Juknys said startups lack time to build their own scraping infrastructure. Teams weighing build versus buy can use the free tier, which allows up to 10,000 requests per month on one shared quota and resets monthly. That is enough to run a pilot and see how the API fits an existing stack before moving to a paid plan.
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