Olostep

Web data API with built-in JS rendering, proxies, and CAPTCHA solving

By Nathan KesslerUpdated Jul 27, 2026

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What is Olostep?

Olostep is a web data API for developers and AI agents that scrapes, crawls, maps, and searches the web, returning content as Markdown, HTML, JSON, PDFs, or screenshots. JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA solving are handled internally with no separate bandwidth or proxy billing, and it supports batch processing of up to 10,000 concurrent URLs. It also has a natural-language Search endpoint, an AI-grounded Answers endpoint for structured JSON answers, and scheduled page-change monitoring with email, webhook, or SMS alerts.

Our verdict

Olostep bundles scraping, crawling, search, and AI-grounded question answering into one API with proxy and CAPTCHA handling folded into the price, which suits teams that want a single bill and SDK instead of stitching together a scraper, a proxy pool, and a parser. It has no disclosed funding, and its customer references are limited to logos on its own homepage, so buyers have less independent signal to weigh it against longer-established competitors.

Categories:

Web Scraping APIs

Web scraping APIs take a URL and return the page, hiding the parts that break at scale: proxy rotation, headless browsers, CAPTCHA handling, and retries. Teams reach for them when maintaining their own scraping infrastructure stops being worth the engineering time.