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Open Web API is a developer tool that enables access to websites while bypassing blocking restrictions. Launched in 2020, it provides a way for developers to retrieve content from web pages that might otherwise be… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open Web API – Access any website without getting blocked launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked

    2021 · datashake.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into an API

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Dashblock▲696

    Turn any website into an API

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    WrapAPI▲291

    Build an API on top of any website

    2016 · wrapapi.com · its alternatives →

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    A collection of public APIs for your next project

    2021 · public-apis.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…

    Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →

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    Open source, dev-friendly and powered by GraphQL and React

    2019 · webiny.com · its alternatives →

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    Build an API on top of any existing website or find an API for a site that you need

    2017 · wrapapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Find public APIs and start building projects and share them.

    2019 · public-apis.io · its alternatives →

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    Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked

    2023 · datashake.com · its alternatives →

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    Yes, it's open source: https://github.com/lissy93/web-check :) Why I'm building this? There are a lot of tools out there for discovering meta and security data relating to a website, IP or server. But currently, there isn't anything that does everything, all in one place and without a paywall/ user sign up. It's still a WIP, and I'm working on a new version, with some more comprehensive checks, so any feedback would be much appreciated :)

    2024 · v1.web-check.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Control the web with prompts (open source)

    2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into a reliable API with 1 prompt

    Dec 2025 · skills.browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there HN! I just wrapped up an all-day documentation spree for Instant API, a JavaScript framework for easily building web APIs that implements type safety at the HTTP interface. It uses a function-as-a-service approach combined with a slightly modified JSDoc spec to automatically enforce parameter and schema validation before HTTP requests make it through to your code. You just write comments above your endpoint functions and voila, enforced type safety contracts between your API endpoints and your developers. OpenAPI specifications are generated automatically as a byproduct of simply…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JSON Api▲175

    Hosted API's to develop your app for free 🙌

    2020 · jsonapi.co · its alternatives →

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    Select anything on a website. If it is part of a table or a list, you get a URL which you can GET for a JSON representation of that list or table. Basically we are making an API for every website whether they like it or not.

    2013 · ec2-54-211-79-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →

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    2020 · wwwperiodictable.surge.sh · its alternatives →

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    Anakin▲148

    Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles anti-bot, proxy rotation, JS rendering, persistent authenticated sessions, and schema-based…

    2021 · anakin.io · its alternatives →

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    SlashApi is a web platform to build REST APIs fast without having to write any code yourself, you will gain instantly access to a fully operational API

    2021 · slashapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Wibbly▲84

    Browser automation API

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Build serverless applications and websites in minutes

    2021 · webiny.com · its alternatives →

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