ax — The AI-Era Curl for Web Scraping & Extraction

Version 1.0.0
Yusuke Bebé & Contributors
AI-driven fetch, discover, extract framework

Summary

ax is a command-line tool purpose-built for AI agents to fetch web pages, discover their structure, and extract structured data — replacing the classic curl → parse → regex loop with one deterministic, token-efficient command.

When to Use ax

• You need an agent to fetch a page and extract structured data
• You want page discovery (--outline) without dumping raw HTML
• You're extracting multi-field rows with CSS selectors (--row, --table)
• You need token-shaped output (capped, with budget control)
• You're building a repeatable web-scraping agent task
• You're tired of curl | grep | awk pipeline in agent code