Quickstart

This guide walks you through your first request to the String Web Access API.

Get your API key

Your API key is available in the String dashboard. Every request authenticates with it as a Bearer token. See Authentication for details.

Make a request

Send a POST to /v1/fetch with the URL you want. The service automatically chooses the best fetch strategy for the target.

Fetch a page as Markdown

curl https://request.usestring.ai/v1/fetch \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/article",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

Read the response

With the default json format you get structured metadata and the response body:

{
  "statusCode": 200,
  "headers": { "content-type": ["text/html"] },
  "data": "..."
}

Switch format to raw for the original bytes or markdown for clean, LLM-ready text. See Response formats.

Next steps

Response formats

JSON, raw, and Markdown — when to use each.

Structured extraction

Get back only the fields you need with a JSON Schema.

Pricing

How requests are billed.

API reference

Every parameter for /fetch.