Capabilities · Last updated April 13, 2026
Web Crawl for AI agents
AnyCap web crawl gives agents a direct URL-to-Markdown extraction path through one CLI. Instead of wiring a separate crawling, scraping, or content extraction API, the agent can fetch a known page, normalize the content, and move it into the rest of the workflow through the same capability runtime used for search, generation, and analysis.
The short answer
Use AnyCap web crawl when the agent already knows the URL and needs clean page content, not a result list.
- Known URLs become normalized Markdown without a separate scraping stack.
- Crawl complements search: search discovers candidates, crawl extracts the chosen page.
- Extracted content can flow into research, writing, coding, and citation workflows.
CLI usage
Read a known URL
anycap crawl https://example.comGet the page title only
anycap crawl https://go.dev | jq -r '.data.title'Extract Markdown content
anycap crawl https://docs.go.dev/ref/spec | jq -r '.data.markdown'How web crawl fits an AnyCap workflow
Select
The agent starts from a known URL, or receives one after a web search step has identified the right source.
Extract
AnyCap fetches the page and returns clean content that is easier for models and downstream tools to process.
Reuse
The agent can summarize, compare, quote, transform, or feed the extracted content into a larger workflow.
When agents need web crawl
Use case 1
Convert known URLs into clean Markdown for downstream summarization or analysis.
Use case 2
Extract documentation pages without maintaining a separate scraping stack.
Use case 3
Fetch content directly when search has already identified the right source page.
Use case 4
Normalize web page content before feeding it into a research, writing, or coding workflow.
FAQ
What does AnyCap web crawl let agents do?
It lets agents take a known URL and convert the page into clean Markdown through one CLI command. That makes web crawl a practical content extraction layer for documentation, articles, and reference pages.
Why not just call this scraping?
Scraping, crawl API, web data API, and content extraction API are all adjacent market terms. Web crawl is the capability label, but the page should also serve the broader content extraction intent because that is how demand usually appears.
When should teams use crawl instead of search?
Use crawl when the target URL is already known and the agent needs the page content itself. Use search when the workflow still needs discovery or source selection.
Why is Markdown conversion useful for AI agents?
Because Markdown is easier for downstream tools and models to process consistently. It reduces the amount of HTML cleanup or extraction logic teams need to maintain on their own.
Let your agent read the page.
Use crawl when the source is already known and the agent needs clean content it can reuse without rebuilding extraction logic.