Olostep × Orthogonal: Powering the Next Generation of AI-Native Web Scraping

When the best web scraping API meets the ultimate AI agent marketplace, magic happens.

The Partnership That's Redefining How AI Accesses the Web

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI agents, one thing has become abundantly clear: the agents are only as powerful as their tools. Today, we're excited to announce a partnership that brings together two pioneers in making the web accessible to AI—Olostep, the leading web scraping infrastructure for AI systems, and Orthogonal, the marketplace making APIs payable and discoverable by AI agents.

This isn't just another integration. This is the foundation for a new era where AI agents can seamlessly access, extract, and process web data at scale—without the friction, complexity, or broken workflows that plague traditional approaches.

Why This Partnership Matters

The Problem: APIs Weren't Built for Agents

Traditional APIs were designed for human developers who manage keys, handle authentication, debug failures, and manually integrate endpoints. But AI agents operate differently. They need to:

• Discover the right tool for the job dynamically
• Pay for services on-demand without subscription overhead
• Fail gracefully and switch providers when needed
• Scale from zero to millions of requests without manual intervention

This is exactly where Orthogonal and Olostep converge.

Orthogonal: The Agent-Native API Layer

Orthogonal has built something remarkable—a marketplace where AI agents can discover, pay for, and use APIs through a single integration. As they put it: "APIs weren't built for agents. We fixed that."

With Orthogonal, developers get:

• One key for hundreds of APIs — No more managing dozens of credentials
• Pay-as-you-go pricing — Perfect for prototyping and unpredictable agent workloads
• Natural language search — Describe what you need, find the right API instantly
• MCP-native architecture — Built from the ground up for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible tool
• Automatic failover — When one provider fails, agents can dynamically switch

Olostep: The Infrastructure Layer for AI-Native Web Access

Olostep has established itself as the go-to infrastructure for turning the messy, chaotic web into structured, LLM-ready data. Their capabilities include:

• High-scale batch processing — Scrape up to 100,000 URLs in just 5-7 minutes
• Full JavaScript rendering — Because 94%+ of modern websites need it
• Built-in anti-bot bypass — Premium residential IP rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and browser fingerprinting
• Clean output formats — Get data in Markdown, HTML, JSON, or structured parser extracts
• 50-90% cost savings — Compared to building and maintaining your own scraping infrastructure

What You Can Build Together

The combination of Olostep's scraping power with Orthogonal's agent-native distribution opens up incredible possibilities:

1. Autonomous Research Agents

Build agents that can research any topic by dynamically scraping relevant sources, extracting key information, and synthesizing insights—all without human intervention.

2. Real-Time Competitive Intelligence

Create AI systems that continuously monitor competitor websites, pricing pages, and product updates—automatically detecting and alerting on meaningful changes.

3. AI-Powered Data Pipelines

Feed your LLMs with fresh, accurate data by building pipelines that:

• Map entire websites to discover all relevant URLs
• Batch process thousands of pages simultaneously
• Extract structured data using custom parsers
• Deliver clean Markdown ready for RAG systems

4. Website Knowledge Chatbots

As demonstrated in Olostep's tutorial, you can build chatbots that understand your entire website by:

1. Crawling all pages with Olostep's /crawls endpoint
2. Embedding content into a vector database
3. Using GPT-4 to answer questions with context

5. Market Intelligence at Scale

From stock analysis to e-commerce monitoring, the combination enables:

• Scraping financial data from sites like MarketWatch
• Extracting Google Maps business intelligence
• Monitoring Bing and Google search results for SEO insights

Technical Deep Dive: How It Works

For Agent Developers

Getting started is remarkably simple. With Orthogonal's MCP integration, your AI agent can access Olostep's full capabilities with just a few lines of configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orthogonal": {
      "url": "https://mcp.orth.sh"
    }
  }
}

That's it. Your agent can now:

• Search for scraping APIs using natural language
• Discover Olostep's endpoints automatically
• Call any Olostep API with proper authentication
• Pay per-request with no upfront commitment

Key Olostep Endpoints Available Through Orthogonal

Example: Scraping with Natural Language

Through Orthogonal, your agent can simply describe what it needs:

"I need to scrape the top 10 stories from Hacker News and extract their titles, URLs, and scores."

Orthogonal's natural language search finds Olostep's scrape endpoint, your agent makes the call, and structured data flows back—all in seconds.

The Economics Make Sense

For Developers

• $10 free credits to start exploring
• No subscriptions — pay only for what your agents actually use
• Transparent pricing — see exactly what each API call costs
• One invoice — even when using dozens of different APIs

For Data-Intensive Applications

Olostep's efficiency shines at scale:

• Traditional scraping: Days of development + ongoing maintenance
• Olostep via Orthogonal: Minutes to integrate, zero maintenance

The math is simple: building and maintaining your own scraping infrastructure typically costs more than using a managed service, especially when you factor in proxy costs, CAPTCHA services, and engineering time.

Real-World Success Stories

Building AI-Powered Stock Analyzers

Developers have used this stack to build real-time stock analysis tools that:

1. Scrape MarketWatch for current stock data
2. Process the information through GPT-4
3. Generate investment scores and visualizations

Automated Bing Search Intelligence

With Microsoft retiring their official Bing Search API, developers turned to Olostep's Bing parser—achieving 99%+ success rates at $0.0005 per request while automatically handling:

• Copilot AI answers
• People Also Ask sections
• Related searches
• Organic and paid results

Website Chatbots That Actually Work

Teams have deployed customer support chatbots that understand entire documentation sites by:

1. Using Olostep to crawl all docs
2. Indexing in ChromaDB
3. Querying via GPT-4 with relevant context

Getting Started Today

Step 1: Sign Up for Orthogonal

Head to orthogonal.com/sign-up and create your account. You'll get $10 in free credits immediately—no credit card required.

Step 2: Configure Your Agent

Add the Orthogonal MCP server to your agent's configuration. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VSCode, and any MCP-compatible tool.

Step 3: Start Building

Use natural language to discover Olostep's APIs, or browse them directly at orthogonal.com/discover/olostep.

Step 4: Scale Confidently

As your needs grow, Orthogonal's transparent pricing and Olostep's battle-tested infrastructure scale with you—from prototype to production.

The Future of AI-Web Integration

This partnership represents more than just a technical integration. It's a vision of how AI systems will interact with the web going forward:

• Agents that can self-discover the tools they need
• Pay-per-use economics that eliminate barriers to experimentation
• Infrastructure that abstracts complexity so developers can focus on value
• Seamless fallbacks that keep agents running even when individual services fail

As AI agents become more autonomous, the need for reliable, discoverable, and payable APIs will only grow. Olostep and Orthogonal are building that future today.

Ready to Build?

The web has more data than ever. Your AI agents should be able to access it effortlessly.

Olostep provides the infrastructure to extract that data reliably and at scale.

Orthogonal makes it discoverable and payable for AI agents.

Together, they're removing the friction between your agents and the world's information.

Get started with $10 free credits →

Have questions about the integration? Reach out to the Orthogonal team at founders@orthogonal.com or the Olostep team at info@olostep.com.