oxylabs-web-api
Installation
SKILL.md
Oxylabs Web API
Two endpoints. search finds URLs, scrape reads them. Base URL https://webapi.oxylabs.io.
Three ways to call them, in order of preference: the MCP tools if the server is connected, the helper script, then raw HTTP with any client.
What it costs you in time
| Call | Expect |
|---|---|
search |
p50 1.3s, p95 2.7s — measured over 2k+ live queries |
scrape without run_js |
seconds, not milliseconds — one page, one fetch |
scrape with run_js |
30s and up. Returns a job id; poll it, don't wait on it |
extract |
a scrape plus model parsing, and billed above a scrape |
Search is cheap enough to run more than once. Budget a research task around the scrapes, not the searches: one query per fact and then 1–3 reads is faster than one query and six reads.