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Web Data Frontier Benchmark: the August 2026 run

Second official run of the open benchmark: 99 real-world targets, 15 providers, 7,425 live requests. Full leaderboard and what moved since July.

Bruce Magness
August 17, 2026

How to build your own GEO engine

We researched the GEO tools on the market, then built our own tracker and improvement engine on the Web Access API. 200 questions, 9 surfaces, a Monday review, and a daily draft queue - open sourced so you can build yours.

Bruce Magness · August 26, 2026

String's Web Access API is now on Apify: 30 Actors

30 single-site scrapers on the Apify Store, each one a thin wrapper on the String Web Access API: job boards and ATS portals, e-commerce and retail, real estate, reviews, finance and ticketing, and public profiles.

The String Team · August 31, 2026

The web scraping industry has a benchmark problem

Every vendor claims a 98-100% success rate, and they can't all be right. So we open-sourced a benchmark anyone can run.

Rohit Shenoy · July 16, 2026

Introducing the String Web Access API

State-of-the-art web access for humans and agents

The String Team · July 15, 2026

Our Web Access Manifesto: Information wants to be free

We're building String to help the world access information on the web at scale

The String Team · July 14, 2026

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String's Web Access API is now on Apify: 30 Actors

The String Team · August 31, 2026

How to build your own GEO engine

Bruce Magness · August 26, 2026

Web Data Frontier Benchmark: the August 2026 run

Bruce Magness · August 17, 2026

The web scraping industry has a benchmark problem

Rohit Shenoy · July 16, 2026

Introducing the String Web Access API

The String Team · July 15, 2026

Our Web Access Manifesto: Information wants to be free

The String Team · July 14, 2026

Comparisons

Reference pages that put String next to other web access and scraping APIs, one vendor at a time.

Best Nimble Alternatives in 2026: 8 Tools Compared

Updated September 11, 2026

ScraperAPI vs ZenRows vs ScrapingBee: which to use in 2026

Updated September 11, 2026

String vs Bright Data (2026): 99 sites compared

Updated September 10, 2026

String vs Oxylabs (2026): 99 sites compared

Updated September 10, 2026

String vs Firecrawl (2026): compared on 99 real-world sites

Updated September 10, 2026
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