18 scraping-API launches in six months, and over a third ship MCP for AI agents

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web scraping api companies launched in past 6 months

A best-effort discovery set of 18 company or standalone web-scraping-API launches between 26 April and 26 October 2026, drawn from launch directories, Hacker News, Product Hunt and vendor sites. "Launch" means a public launch of the service, not legal incorporation — Firecrawl in particular looks like a refreshed listing of an established open-source project rather than a new company. Four entries rest on a single public source and are marked lower-confidence.

Launch timeline, 26 Apr – 26 Oct 2026

Each dot is one launch, placed on its launch date; size scales with corroborating pages found (1–66). Hover or tap a dot for details.

General web extraction Social / vertical data Agent / MCP tooling Hollow ring: single-source, lower confidence

7 of 18 launches expose an MCP server alongside a REST API — the agent-tooling wave is strongest in the newest cohort, e.g. CrawlForge MCP in October. aitoolly.com

13 of 18 advertise a free tier or free credits; the cheapest stated paid entry points are CrawlAPI at $9.99/mo and Runo at $0.90 per 1,000 effective requests. producthunt.com

Context.dev (66 corroborating pages) and Social Fetch (29) are the most widely covered launches in the window; both opened it in late April. producthunt.com

Firecrawl's 22 October Y Combinator launch listing likely refreshes an existing open-source project rather than marking a new company — treat its launch date with caution. ycombinator.com

All 18 launches

Service	Launched	Focus	Access	Pricing / free tier	Pages	Source

Method: best-effort discovery set, not an exhaustive census — 18 rows, one per normalized service, each a public launch of a company or standalone web-scraping API between 2026-04-26 and 2026-10-26, collected 26 Oct 2026 from launch directories, Product Hunt, Hacker News and vendor pages. "Pages" counts corroborating pages found per service; entries with one page are marked lower confidence. Launch dates reflect public launch listings, which sometimes relaunch older projects (notably Firecrawl). One representative source URL shown per service; longer focus and access descriptions trimmed for space.

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