One API to Get Fresh Web Data: Introducing Oxylabs Web API

AI agents are becoming direct users of the public web. They find information, retrieve data, and complete tasks on their own. But the web wasn't built for them: discovering fresh, relevant sources and reliably extracting structured data from complex pages often means combining search, scraping, and parsing tools from separate providers that weren’t designed to work together.

Oxylabs is closing that gap with a solution, built on more than a decade of web-data expertise. Introducing Web API – one API that brings you fresh web discovery and reliable, structured data extraction, combining search and scrape capabilities in one API, covering both – on the same infrastructure that already powers reliable web access for 15,000+ users.

Whether you're building an AI agent from scratch or you're an existing Oxylabs customer, Web API gives you one tool to find the right sources on the live web and turn them into structured data your models can use immediately.

Inside Oxylabs’ Web API

The new Web API combines two things most AI applications need from the web: finding the right pages and turning them into clean and structured data your models can use directly. All through one product, covering both sides of the job. 

It's built on the same proxy network and scraping infrastructure Oxylabs has been helping businesses run at scale for years. What's new, is the interface on top of it – one unified product, one API key, and one credit-based billing model, instead of separate tools for discovery and extraction. It's also agent-native, with access via MCP and packaged Agent Skills, so AI agents and coding assistants can pick it up without custom integration work.

Web API features two endpoints:

• /search – discovery. Give it a query, and get back ranked, location-accurate web results – titles, links, and descriptions – with enough context to feed a model directly. Clean JSON right off the bat, no extra steps. It's the research step of any AI agent or RAG pipeline.

• /scrape – extraction. Everything Oxylabs' scraping infrastructure already does, now with one-shot AI-powered parsing built in. Point it at a URL and get back markdown, HTML, a screenshot, or structured JSON – agent-ready output, extracted by a model, without writing a custom parser for every target site.

Together, they cover the two jobs at the center of most AI-agent and data-pipeline workflows: finding sources, and turning them into something usable.

A game-changer for AI applications

Building a production AI agent that needs live web data usually means owning a lot of plumbing that has nothing to do with the product itself. Web API is designed to remove that.

• One API, one contract. Search and Scrape behind a single key and a single credit-based billing model – one vendor relationship instead of three.

• Agent-native access. MCP support and packaged Agent Skills mean AI agents and coding assistants can start using Web API without custom integration work.

• Model-ready output, by default. Traceable search results, and extraction that comes back parsed in whatever format your pipeline needs.

• Built-in security and compliance. Web API runs on the same network, reliability engineering, and compliance foundation – GDPR alignment, certified security management, with data protection built into the product design.

• A welcome credit to start. New users get $5 in credit after signing up, so you can try Web API before committing – and you only pay for successfully returned results, with pricing designed to stay efficient at scale.

Everything a team needs to get AI-ready web data – search, extraction, and agent access, now comes from one place instead of several. And it's built on infrastructure that's already been tried and tested at scale. 

Built for agent-native web access

AI agents don't browse the web through a browser window – they query programmatically, pull content in bulk, and need it shaped for reasoning rather than scanning. That difference is why demand for AI-ready search and extraction has grown so fast, and why most teams building agents today end up choosing between several point solutions that each cover one piece of the job.

Our Web API takes a different starting point: one vendor for web data discovery and extraction together, running on infrastructure that was already handling reliable, large-scale web access before "AI agent" was a product category.

How to get started

Every existing Oxylabs customer has access at launch – no waitlist, no separate signup. If you're new, you can start with a $5 welcome credit, and get a working request in minutes using the Web API playground, which lets you try Search and Scrape side by side, switch output formats, and copy working code in your language of choice.

Head over to Web API documentation to kickstart your agentic search and scraping journey, or contact our support team if you're evaluating Web API for an enterprise use case.