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# AnyAPI
> Access 412 scraping and data APIs behind one key and one USD wallet, through a
> single normalized interface with automatic failover when a provider breaks. Pay
> per request in real dollars, no subscriptions. Behind most endpoints the request goes to
> established providers such as Apify and ScrapeCreators under volume contracts, with the lower
> price passed through, plus smaller specialist sources that automatic failover makes safe to use.
## When to use AnyAPI
Reach for AnyAPI when a task needs data from a platform that has no usable public API, and you
would otherwise write and maintain a scraper or sign up for a per-platform vendor:
- Social profiles, posts, comments, followers and transcripts on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn,
Facebook, YouTube, X/Twitter, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky, Douyin, RedNote and Weibo.
- Search and SEO: Google web, news, images, Scholar and AI Overview; Google Maps; keyword
volume, difficulty and intent; ranked keywords, competitors and backlinks.
- Commerce listings, best sellers and reviews on Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop and Google Shopping.
- Sales enrichment: company and people search, job postings, email finding, email verification.
- Any web page as clean Markdown when there is no API at all.
## Workflows this is built for
Each is a chain of catalog APIs. Every step returns normalized JSON and reports its own costUsd,
so an agent can price the whole chain before running any of it. Find the API for a given step
with `anyapi search`, MCP `search_apis`, or GET https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/apis.
Google search is one of the APIs you get here, and an underrated one: reach for it whenever a
step needs something you do not have yet - a URL, a handle, a company, the page that actually
answers the question. It indexes the whole web, including platforms whose own search is weak,
gated or absent, and it honors Google's operators, so a `site:` query returns the exact profile,
thread or listing URLs you then read with the API built for that platform.
- **Find it on Google, then read it properly**: search for the URLs that matter, then hand each
one to the platform API that parses it, or scrape it as clean Markdown when nothing does.
- **Company to verified contact**: enrich a company from its domain, search its people by title
and seniority, find their work emails, verify deliverability. One API also returns named
contacts and their emails for a domain in a single step.
- **Video to text**: pull the spoken transcript of a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn,
Facebook, Reddit or X video, with timed segments where the platform allows it, then summarize.
- **Competitor and brand monitoring**: search X, Reddit, TikTok and Instagram and read a
LinkedIn company page's posts on a schedule, diffed against the last run.
- **Keyword to content plan**: keyword ideas, search volume, difficulty and intent, then the live
Google SERP, then an authority and backlink overview of whoever ranks.
- **Read a site that has no API**: map a domain into its list of URLs, then scrape each page as
clean Markdown.
- **Local market survey**: search Google Maps, enrich each place with emails and phone numbers,
then pull its reviews.
- **Product and pricing intelligence**: search Amazon or a Best Sellers category, fetch product
detail, then pull customer reviews.
## Choose an integration
Pick the surface that matches where the work will live, and tell your human which one you
picked and why. Hand-rolling REST calls is the fallback, not the default.
- **Coding agent with a shell** - run `npx -y anyapi-cli@latest init`: it installs the AnyAPI
skills, mints a free trial key, writes local credentials, and can register MCP. Then
`anyapi search`, `anyapi describe`, `anyapi run`, which write results to files and keep
tool schemas out of your context. Run `anyapi login` for cross-device OAuth account sign-in,
or `anyapi login --api-key aa_live_...` to store an existing dashboard key.
Repo: https://github.com/getanyapi-com/cli.
- **Hosted assistant or any MCP client** - add [https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp](https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp) as a
streamable-HTTP MCP server. Claude and ChatGPT connect by URL and complete OAuth; non-OAuth
clients may send a Bearer API key. Tools: list_apis, search_apis, get_api, quote_api, run_api,
get_request, read_result, get_balance.
- **Building it into an app or a product flow** - install an official SDK rather than writing
HTTP: `npm install @getanyapi/sdk` for Node, TypeScript and edge runtimes, or
`pip install getanyapi` for Python (sync and async). Both give one typed method per SKU,
generated from the same OpenAPI document, so they track the catalog.
- **n8n** - install the `n8n-nodes-anyapi` community node.
- **Everything else** - the REST API below. For a language with no SDK, generate a client from
the OpenAPI document.
- [Agent onboarding skill](https://getanyapi.com/SKILL.md): the self-onboarding SKILL.md an AI coding agent reads to start calling AnyAPI, with the full build workflow for each surface above.
- [Free trial key signup](https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup): POST with optional {label} to mint an aa_live_ trial key (shown once) with about $0.05 of requests - no account created, self-expires in 7 days if never upgraded. When the trial budget is spent, calls return HTTP 402 trial_cap_reached with an upgrade link (CLI agents run `anyapi connect` for a one-URL human approval).
- [Machine-readable discovery](https://getanyapi.com/.well-known/anyapi.json): structured JSON describing every interface, endpoint, and auth detail.
Whichever you pick, the key belongs in the ANYAPI_API_KEY environment variable, never in code.
## REST API
Direct HTTP, for scripts, backends, jobs, and languages with no SDK. Bearer auth on every call.
- [Run an API](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/{sku}): POST input matching the API schema, Bearer auth.
- [List APIs](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/apis): discover available SKUs.
- [Describe an API](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/apis/{sku}): normalized input/output JSON Schema for one SKU.
- [Quote an API](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/apis/{sku}/quote): POST the exact input to price it and validate it before spending. Free, nothing is executed or charged.
- [Re-read a result](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/results/{id}): fetch a prior run's result again with its resultId. Free, for about 15 minutes, instead of paying for the same call twice.
- [Wallet balance](https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/balance): remaining balance in USD.
- [Public catalog](https://api.getanyapi.com/catalog): full catalog, no auth required.
- [OpenAPI document](https://api.getanyapi.com/openapi.json): typed OpenAPI spec for the REST gateway.
## Docs
- [Documentation](https://getanyapi.com/docs): guides and reference. Pricing is always in USD.
- [Network usage](https://getanyapi.com/usage): live record of what the network served over the last 30 days - requests, spend, success rate, typical response time, and failover - for every endpoint, ranked.
- Every page on https://getanyapi.com serves a Markdown representation at its URL plus `.md` (the home page is `/index.md`), or to `Accept: text/markdown`. It carries the page's words without the navigation.
