I’m turning every website into an API for agents and apps

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Summary

The author is building a tool that creates durable APIs from public websites, enabling AI agents and apps to interact with web data programmatically, with examples like generating a YouTube API for search and video details.

I’ve been thinking that if agents are going to be regular users of the internet, they should be able to use websites through APIs instead of browsers. Some of you may have experienced this with browser tools: lots of screenshots / token-heavy page content, slow runs, and unreliable setups. I’m building a tool that creates durable APIs from public websites. You give it a URL and describe the data you need + any operations you want it to support, and it builds endpoints your agent or app can use. Using YouTube as an example, that means an API for searching videos and getting video details. For example, your agent could pass in a search query or look up a video by ID, and get structured JSON back. The goal is to give agents an interface for using websites programmatically, beyond simply rendering the contents of a particular page. I’m especially interested in anyone: using agents to perform the same web operations regularly, tracking changes across websites over time, or building apps backed by live web data. I’m looking for a few people to try it on something they’re building. If this sounds useful, feel free to comment or DM me! Would love to hear what you’re working on and help get it working for your use case.
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