# Stormap, free, No key: Web scraping API

> Read a web page for an AI: fetch a public page and return its main content as clean, LLM-ready Markdown (navigation, footers, scripts and cookie banners removed) plus metadata: title, description, author, published/modified dates, canonical URL, language and word count. Reads server-rendered HTML (no JavaScript execution) and respects robots.txt.

Stormap's No key plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Stormap's docs list 1: Markdown.
You get up to 600 calls a month.
We haven't run Stormap through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/free-no-key
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://stormap.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://stormap.ai/api/v1/tools/read_url`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://stormap.ai/developers/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1v1~1tools~1read_url
- Sold by: Stormap (https://stormap.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: vendor_trust_profile · company_changes · agentic_commerce_readiness · company_profile · check_before_paying · package_check · why_is_it_moving · trading_halts · x402_market_report · find_best_api · brainstorm_ideas · email_domain_check · ai_visibility_score · check_ai_crawler_access · generate_llms_txt

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Read a web page for an AI: fetch a public page and return its main content as clean, LLM-ready Markdown (navigation, footers, scripts and cookie banners removed) plus metadata: title, description, author, published/modified dates, canonical URL, language and word count. Reads server-rendered HTML (no JavaScript execution) and respects robots.txt.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: URL tools only fetch public websites (private and internal addresses are refused), with short timeouts and size limits. 60 requests/minute burst limit. Don't use the tools to scan sites you don't own at volume.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 600 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 20
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: max_chars
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/tools/read_url

## About the plan

- Plan: No key
- Who can get it: anyone, with no key or account, limited per IP address

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, HTTP status, title, description, author, published date, modified date, canonical URL, language, word count, Markdown, truncated

## Stormap's plans (6)

- [Stormap, free, No key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/free-no-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Stormap, free key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/free-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Stormap, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Stormap, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/10-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Stormap, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/9-monthly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Stormap, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.933 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Stormap's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/tools/read_url`: [Stormap, free, No key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/free-no-key/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/v1/read_url`: [Stormap, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Stormap's APIs (3)

- [Stormap: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/stormap/free-no-key/llms.txt)
- [Stormap: email verification API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/stormap/free-no-key/llms.txt)
- [Stormap: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stormap/free-no-key/llms.txt)

## Stormap: web scraping API alternatives

- [DeepSFetch, $230.40 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/deepsfetch/230-40-yearly/llms.txt): $1.92 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $12 pack, Mini, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, premium proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/12-pack-mini-post-markdown-markdown-generation-premium-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $1.92 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $7,490 yearly, Scale S2, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript rendering and premium proxies](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/7490-yearly-scale-s2-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page-javascript-rendering-and-premium-proxies/llms.txt): $1.950 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ScrapingFish, $20 pack, 10,000 requests](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingfish/20-pack-10000-requests/llms.txt): $1.951 per 1,000, 29% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/api/v1?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/developers/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://stormap.ai/x402/v1?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing