
Crawleo
Real-Time Search & Crawling API for AI Agents
Real-Time Search, Crawling, and Web Intelligence API for AI Developers
Crawleo is a privacy-first web search and crawling API built for developers working with LLM apps, RAG pipelines, AI agents, automation tools, and real-time data workflows.
Instead of forcing developers to combine separate search APIs, crawlers, proxies, HTML cleaning scripts, Markdown converters, and agent integrations, Crawleo provides one API layer for accessing live web data in formats that are easier to use inside AI systems.
Core Crawleo Endpoints
Search API
The Crawleo Search API allows developers to run real-time web searches and receive structured search results that can be used inside AI products, research tools, monitoring systems, and automation workflows.
It supports parameters for controlling the query, number of pages, result count, language, country, geolocation, and device type. Developers can also enable automatic crawling, so Crawleo can search the web and crawl the returned result pages in the same workflow.
This is useful for:
LLM apps that need fresh web context
RAG pipelines that need real-time sources
AI agents that need to search before answering
SEO and competitor research tools
Monitoring and alerting workflows
No-code automations that need live web data
Crawler API
The Crawleo Crawler API allows developers to crawl one or multiple URLs directly and extract clean page content. It is useful when the developer already has target URLs and wants to convert those pages into AI-ready formats.
The crawler can return outputs such as:
Raw HTML
Cleaned HTML
Plain text
Markdown
This makes it easier to prepare web pages for LLM prompts, embedding pipelines, content analysis, summarization, and knowledge-base ingestion.
Output Formats Built for AI Workflows
Crawleo focuses on returning content in practical formats developers can actually use:
Markdown for RAG, LLM prompts, documentation ingestion, and knowledge bases
Plain text for lightweight extraction and classification
HTML for structured parsing and advanced processing
Raw HTML when developers need the original page source
The goal is to reduce the amount of custom post-processing developers need to write before passing web content into an AI workflow.
Integrations
Crawleo is also built around modern AI and automation integrations.
MCP Integration
Crawleo supports the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI assistants and IDEs to connect directly to Crawleo as a web-search and crawling tool.
MCP endpoint:
https://api.crawleo.dev/mcp
This allows tools such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible clients to use Crawleo for live web search and page crawling.
Available MCP tools include:
web.searchweb.crawl
This is especially useful for AI agents that need to retrieve live information, inspect web pages, or use external context before producing answers or taking actions.
REST API
For developers building custom apps, backends, scripts, dashboards, and internal tools, Crawleo can be used directly through its REST API.
REST API base:
https://api.crawleo.dev/api/v1
This gives developers full control over request parameters, response handling, and integration into their own systems.
LangChain Integration
Crawleo also provides a LangChain integration for developers building agentic or RAG-based applications with LangChain.
Package: langchain-crawleo
It exposes tools such as:
CrawleoSearchCrawleoCrawler
This makes it easier to plug Crawleo into LangChain workflows without manually wrapping the API.
Who Crawleo Is For
Crawleo is useful for:
AI developers
RAG application builders
AI agent developers
Automation builders
No-code developers using tools like n8n, Zapier, and Make
SEO and research tools
Data extraction workflows
Internal business intelligence systems
Developers who need live web data without maintaining scraping infrastructure
Why We Built It
Real-time web data is becoming a core layer for AI products. But the infrastructure behind it is still fragmented.
Developers often need to manage:
Search APIs
Crawlers
Proxies
Anti-bot handling
JavaScript rendering
HTML cleanup
Markdown conversion
Rate limits
API integrations
Agent tooling
Crawleo brings these pieces closer together so developers can focus on building products instead of maintaining web data infrastructure.
Crawleo Links
Website: https://www.crawleo.dev/
Docs: https://www.crawleo.dev/docs
API Base: https://api.crawleo.dev/api/v1
MCP Endpoint: https://api.crawleo.dev/mcp
GitHub: https://github.com/Crawleo
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/crawleo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crawleo
X/Twitter: https://x.com/crawleo_dev
About
Crawleo exists to help AI developers access fresh web data without expensive search APIs or fragile scraping pipelines. With one privacy-first API, developers can search, crawl, and return clean AI-ready outputs for LLM

1 Comment
This is a thorough post, genuinely useful as documentation, but it reads like a spec sheet, and it buries the only two reasons a developer would actually switch to you.
The whole thing is parity: search plus crawl plus Markdown plus MCP plus LangChain, which is exactly what Tavily, Exa and Firecrawl all say too. Consolidation is table stakes now.
The two things that are not in this post, and that actually win the comparison, are sitting on your own pricing page: you cost about a fifth of Tavily ($20 versus $100 for 10K searches), and your real-Chromium-with-residential setup reaches the Cloudflare and DataDome pages the others just fail on. A developer choosing among five of these tools does not care that you also support Markdown.
They care that you are cheaper and that you crawl the page that broke their last scraper. Lead with those two lines everywhere, this post included.
Do people switch to you for the price, or for the pages the others cannot reach?