Anakin API

Name: Anakin API API
Brand: Anakin API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecAI/MLEmbeddings SearchapiKey12 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Lets agents scrape one URL, batch up to 10 URLs, run web-scraper or crawl jobs, discover URLs on a domain, run AI-powered web search, or kick off agentic research jobs — all via X-API-Key authenticated POST/GET pairs.

Quickstart

Get started with Anakin API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"scrape a website"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Anakin API API.

Scrape a single URL (or up to 10 in a batch) and retrieve the cleaned content as a job result

Run a web-scraper job that handles JavaScript-heavy pages and follows pagination rules

Crawl a website starting from a root URL and collect content across multiple pages

Discover the URL map of a website without fully crawling it

GET STARTED

Start building with Anakin API API

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View OpenAPI Document

The Anakin API is a web scraping and data extraction platform exposing 12 endpoints for URL scraping, batch scraping, web scraping jobs, web crawling, sitemap-style URL discovery (map), AI-powered web search, and longer-running agentic research jobs. Each long-running operation is a POST that returns a job id, with a paired GET /job/{id} or resource-specific status endpoint for polling. Authentication is via the X-API-Key header against api.anakin.io/v1. Typical consumers are LLM RAG pipelines, sales prospecting tools, and research agents that need clean structured content from arbitrary websites.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Anakin API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ RAG Ingestion of a Documentation Site

LLM platform teams can stand up a documentation RAG pipeline by calling POST /map to discover the docs URL set, POST /crawl to crawl the resulting site, then poll GET /crawl/{id} for the cleaned content. The two-step (kick off, then poll) pattern is consistent across long-running endpoints, so the same client code wraps every job type. Most teams stand up an end-to-end pipeline in a day.

Call POST /map with url='https://docs.example.com', then POST /crawl with the discovered root URL, then poll GET /crawl/{id} until status='completed' and return the cleaned page content

Sales Prospecting Page Extraction

Sales-prospecting tools can call POST /scrape on a company homepage or POST /scrape-batch on a list of 10 candidate URLs to pull pricing, headcount, and tech-stack signals. The job-based shape lets the tool process inbound leads asynchronously rather than blocking on every scrape. The X-API-Key model keeps the integration trivial.

Call POST /scrape-batch with 10 candidate company URLs, retrieve the resulting job id, then poll GET /job/{id} until completion and return each page's cleaned content

Agentic Research for Investment Notes

Investment and research teams can hand off a research question to POST /agentic-search, get back a job id, and poll GET /agentic-search/{id} for a multi-step researched answer. The agentic endpoint handles the search-and-synthesise loop server-side so the calling team does not need to wire up its own tool-calling scaffold. Pair with POST /search for lighter-weight grounded answers.

Call POST /agentic-search with a question like 'recent funding rounds for vector database startups', poll GET /agentic-search/{id}, and return the final structured answer

AI Agent Web Research Loop

Research and copywriting agents can use Anakin through Jentic to scrape, crawl, and search without managing an X-API-Key directly. The agent searches Jentic for a scrape, crawl, search, or agentic-search intent, loads the operation schema, and Jentic injects the key at execution time. Useful when an agent already chains LLM tool calls and just needs a clean web-data tool in the mix.

Search Jentic for 'scrape a single URL', execute the operation backed by POST /scrape with url='https://example.com/pricing', poll GET /job/{id} until completion, and return the cleaned page content

Key Endpoints

12 endpoints — the anakin api is a web scraping and data extraction platform exposing 12 endpoints for url scraping, batch scraping, web scraping jobs, web crawling, sitemap-style url discovery (map), ai-powered web search, and longer-running agentic research jobs.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/scrape

Scrape a single URL

POST

/scrape-batch

Batch scrape up to 10 URLs

GET

/job/{id}

Get scrape job status and results

POST

/web-scraper

Start a JavaScript-aware web scraper job

POST

/map

Discover URLs on a website

POST

/crawl

Crawl multiple pages starting from a root URL

POST

/search

AI-powered web search

POST

/agentic-search

Start an agentic research job

POST

/scrape

Scrape a single URL

POST

/scrape-batch

Batch scrape up to 10 URLs

GET

/job/{id}

Get scrape job status and results

POST

/web-scraper

Start a JavaScript-aware web scraper job

POST

/map

Discover URLs on a website

POST

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The Anakin X-API-Key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped execution capability — the key never enters the agent's context, prompts, or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. 'scrape a URL', 'crawl a website', 'run agentic research') and Jentic returns the matching Anakin operation with its input schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing anakin.io/docs.

Time to first call

Direct Anakin integration: 4-8 hours for auth, polling loops, and error handling on long-running jobs. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load schema, execute, poll.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Apify

Actor-based scraping platform with a wider library of pre-built scrapers

Choose Apify when there is a pre-built actor for the target site; choose Anakin when a generic scrape, crawl, or agentic-search call is enough

Alternative

Browserless

Hosted headless Chrome with a programmatic API for scraping and automation

Pick Browserless when full browser-control (forms, interactions) is required; pick Anakin for clean-content scraping and AI search out of the box

Alternative

ScraperAPI

Proxy-and-scrape API that handles rotation and bot detection at the request layer

Use ScraperAPI when you only need rotated-proxy fetches; use Anakin when you also want crawling, mapping, or agentic search

Complementary

Outscraper

Specialised scrapers for Google Maps, reviews, and SERPs to pair with Anakin's general scraping

Use Outscraper for Google-specific data and Anakin for general web scraping in the same agent pipeline

FAQs

Specific to using Anakin API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Anakin API use?

Anakin uses API key authentication via the X-API-Key header on every request. There is no OAuth flow. Through Jentic, the X-API-Key is stored encrypted in the vault and injected at execution time, so the agent never sees the raw key.

Can I scrape multiple URLs in a single call with the Anakin API?

Yes. POST /scrape-batch accepts up to 10 URLs in one request and returns a job id. Poll GET /job/{id} until the status flips to completed and the response carries the cleaned content for each URL. For higher volume, queue multiple batches rather than expanding a single batch.

What are the rate limits for the Anakin API?

The spec does not document rate limits explicitly. Anakin applies them per plan tier — paid plans support more concurrent jobs and higher daily caps than the free trial. Treat HTTP 429 as a signal to back off and reduce concurrent jobs rather than retry tightly.

How do I run an agentic research job through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'run agentic research'. Jentic returns the operation backed by POST /agentic-search, you load the schema (the question is the main input), execute, then poll GET /agentic-search/{id} for the result. Jentic injects the X-API-Key from the vault. Sign up at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

Are the long-running endpoints synchronous?

No. Scrape, web-scraper, map, crawl, and agentic-search endpoints are all kick-off-and-poll. Each POST returns a job id, and a paired GET endpoint (/job/{id}, /web-scraper/{id}, /map/{id}, /crawl/{id}, /agentic-search/{id}) returns status and final results. Plan for asynchronous handling in any client wrapping this API.

Can the Anakin API handle JavaScript-heavy pages?

Yes. POST /web-scraper is the JavaScript-aware path designed for SPAs and rendered pages, while POST /scrape is the lighter HTML-fetch path. Pick /web-scraper when the page needs rendering and /scrape when a clean HTML response is enough.