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Scout scrapes, crawls, maps, and extracts structured data from the public web, then hands it back as typed JSON with evidence attached — the source URL, a content hash, a verified flag, and (for product records) per-field citations. It’s built to answer the question “can I trust this record?” as directly as it answers “what does this page say?” Every hosted call is metered in credits and authenticated with a Bearer API key. There is no unlimited tier — plans are priced against a fixed, published credit allowance so usage is predictable.

Get your API key

Register with your email. Scout emails a one-time scout_live_... key you use as a Bearer token.

Try the playground

Run a capped, live demo (scrape and map) directly on the homepage before writing any code.

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What makes a Scout record “evidence-grade”

Every response includes:
  • Source — the exact URL fetched, when it was fetched, and which fetch provider ran (ScoutMetadata on scrape/crawl; _source on product records).
  • Content hash — content_hash on scrape responses, so repeats of a run can be diffed.
  • Citations — product records (AlgoliaProductRecord) carry a citations array and a completeness_score, so a field like price or brand can be traced back to where it came from.
  • Blocked-page transparency — crawl and product runs report blocked_pages rather than silently dropping pages that failed or were sparse.

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Where to go next

Quickstart

Sign up, get a key, make your first call.

Credits

What a credit costs and what it buys.

Endpoints

Request and response shapes for every capability.