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AgentWeb – Free business directory API for AI agents (11M+ businesses)

AgentWeb – Free business directory API for AI agents (11M+ businesses)

by ReidarO·Feb 27, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

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Real business data API for agents—but Perplexity, Brave Search, and SerpAPI already serve this.

Strengths
  • •PostGIS geo-search with sub-50ms latency is genuinely efficient for agent queries.
  • •Trust scores and freshness metadata designed explicitly for LLM hallucination prevention.
  • •Free tier with no rate limits removes friction vs. paid search APIs.
Weaknesses
  • •Data quality depends on OpenStreetMap + web crawling; competitor APIs have proprietary verification.
  • •Global coverage claims unverified; no public accuracy benchmarks or uptime proof yet.
Target Audience

AI engineers building agents, LLM application developers needing business data

Similar To

SerpAPI · Brave Search API · Perplexity Search

Post Description

I built AgentWeb - a free, structured business directory API designed specifically for AI agents.

The problem: AI agents that need real-world business data (phone numbers, emails, hours, addresses) have to either scrape Google (which blocks them) or parse random websites (unreliable). There's no clean data layer for agents to query.

What AgentWeb does:

11M+ businesses across 195 countries Full-text + geo search (PostGIS-powered, <50ms) Clean JSON with trust scores and confidence ratings MCP server for Claude Desktop (npx agentweb-mcp) Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain function calling Data comes from OpenStreetMap + continuous web enrichment for phone numbers, emails, social profiles, and opening hours.

Free for personal AI agents. Get a key at https://agentweb.live

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/agentweb-mcp GitHub: https://github.com/zerabic/agentweb-mcp

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