Web access for everyone.
We build the web data API that doesn't get blocked — one request, any URL, clean content back.
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Anti-bot handling, CAPTCHA solving, proxy rotation, and JS rendering are our problem, not yours. Send a URL, get the content back. A block costs you nothing — you're billed only when content is successfully delivered, and the first 5,000 requests are free.
curl https://request.usestring.ai/v1/fetch \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $STRING_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "url": "https://example.com", "format": "markdown" }'Agents can skip the HTTP layer entirely — @usestring/mcp
is the official MCP server, local or hosted:
npx @usestring/mcp # local; STRING_AI_API_KEY in the environment...or point any MCP client at https://mcp.usestring.ai/YOUR_API_KEY/v1/mcp.
web-data-frontier-benchmarkTypeScript |
An open, reproducible benchmark for web access APIs: 90 real bot-protected URLs, 15 providers, one shared harness. We built it because vendor success-rate claims don't survive a fixed test suite — ours included, which is why the harness, the URL list, and the raw JSON are all public. |
powhttp-mcpGo · AGPL-3.0 |
X-ray vision into captured HTTP traffic for coding agents: TLS (JA3/JA4) and HTTP/2 fingerprinting, browser-vs-program diffing to locate detection vectors, API and GraphQL endpoint mapping, and response-schema inference. |
string-ai-mcpJavaScript · MIT |
The official MCP server for the Web Access API — web_access_fetch, web_access_search, and quote-then-approve sitemap crawls, in any MCP client. |
utilsShell · MIT |
The scripts and gists we reference in our writing. |
relay-self-hostedJavaScript |
Fully self-hosted Obsidian live collaboration — CRDT sync, token service, and OAuth, with no relay.md control plane. |
Official run — 2026-07-15 · 90 targets × 5 attempts × 15 providers = 6,750 requests.
| Rank | Provider | Success rate | Passed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | string | 95.8% | 431/450 |
| 2 | scrapfly | 83.6% | 376/450 |
| 3 | bright | 80.9% | 364/450 |
| 4 | context_dev | 78.7% | 354/450 |
| 5 | firecrawl | 70.9% | 319/450 |
Full table, all fifteen providers, and instructions to re-run it yourself →
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