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Index the world's undocumented APIs

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Index the APIs (even the undocumented ones)

by dimavrem22·Feb 17, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidBig BrainWizardry

Uses API indexing instead of visual scraping for cheaper, faster LLM-driven web automation—clever approach, unproven at scale.

Strengths
  • •Core insight is sound: APIs are faster and cheaper for LLM reasoning than screenshots or DOM trees.
  • •Open-source repo with clear tutorial and working agent; buildable and testable.
  • •Addresses real pain in agentic web automation (token waste, hallucinations, latency).
Weaknesses
  • •Depends on proprietary Vectorly API key for actual extraction—not purely open-source and adds operational cost.
  • •Unclear how well this scales to sites with heavy obfuscation or dynamic API changes; initial examples shown are simple.
Target Audience

AI engineers building web automation, data extraction, and web scraping pipelines.

Similar To

Firecrawl (API extraction for LLMs) · Langchain web tools (visual scraping agents) · Playwright + custom parsing

Post Description

Every modern web app exposes two interfaces: a visual one for humans and a structured API that the frontend itself depends on. Browser agents automate the slow, visual interface, costing tokens on every interaction. We index the structured API layer instead. Because LLMs reason far more effectively over code and sequential data than screenshots or HTML trees, our approach is significantly faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

We are building a database of the world’s web APIs to allow for efficient and reliable data extraction from dynamic websites. If you want to leverage our index or learn more about our autonomous reverse engineering process, check out the open source repo: https://github.com/VectorlyApp/bluebox

Quick tutorial: https://youtu.be/7OXADG7AIug

Looking forward to your feedback!

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