Welcome to TABS
What is TABS API?
TABS API is a powerful web content extraction and transformation toolkit designed specifically for AI agent builders. It provides intelligent web scraping capabilities, content processing, and structured data extraction through a simple REST API.
Why TABS API for AI Agents?
Building AI agents that can effectively gather and process web content is challenging. TABS API solves the common problems that agent builders face:
Reliable Web Content Access
- Multi-strategy fetching: Automatically tries different approaches (basic HTTP, proxy, web unlocker) to successfully retrieve content
- Smart caching: Reduces latency and API costs while respecting content freshness
- Robust error handling: Gracefully handles timeouts, blocks, SSL errors, and redirects
AI-Ready Content Processing
- Clean markdown conversion: Transforms messy HTML into clean, structured markdown perfect for LLM processing
- Metadata extraction: Automatically extracts OpenGraph data, titles, descriptions, and other structured metadata
- Content optimization: Removes ads, navigation, and clutter to focus on the main content
Structured Data Extraction
- Schema generation: AI-powered analysis of web pages to automatically generate JSON schemas
- Custom data extraction: Transform any web content into structured JSON using custom schemas and instructions
- Question answering: Get direct answers to questions by analyzing web content with integrated search
Core Capabilities
TABS API provides six main endpoints that work together to power your AI agents:
| Endpoint | Purpose | Best For |
|---|---|---|
/fetch | Raw content retrieval | When you need the original HTML/content |
/markdown | Clean content conversion | Preparing content for LLM processing |
/schema | Data structure discovery | Understanding what data is available on a page |
/json | Structured data extraction | Converting web content into usable data formats |
/transform | Custom content processing | Advanced content manipulation with AI |
/automate | Web automation tasks | Browser automation and interaction with web pages |
When to Use TABS API
TABS API is ideal for AI agents that need to:
- Research and analysis: Gather information from multiple web sources
- Market intelligence: Monitor competitor websites and extract structured data
- Content curation: Build knowledge bases from web content
- Data aggregation: Collect and normalize data from various online sources
- Real-time monitoring: Track changes on websites and extract relevant updates
Architecture Benefits
- Production-ready: Built for scale with Redis caching, rate limiting, and comprehensive monitoring
- Strategy-based fetching: Automatically chooses the best method to access content
- API-first design: Easy integration with any programming language or AI framework
- Intelligent caching: Balances performance with content freshness
- Comprehensive logging: Full visibility into API usage and performance
Getting Started
Ready to build your first AI agent with TABS API? Check out our Quick Start Guide to get up and running in minutes, or explore our Research Assistant Example to see a real-world implementation.
For detailed technical information, see our API Reference guide.