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Web Data Frontier Benchmark: the September 2026 run

Third official run of the open benchmark: 100 real-world targets, 16 providers, 8,000 live requests. Full leaderboard, per-site results, and what moved since August.

Bruce Magness
September 30, 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

All posts

Web Data Frontier Benchmark: the September 2026 run

Bruce Magness · September 30, 2026

How to scrape Reddit in 2026

Bruce Magness · September 30, 2026

How to scrape Google search results in 2026

Bruce Magness · September 30, 2026

How to scrape X (Twitter) in 2026

Bruce Magness · September 30, 2026

How to scrape Zillow in 2026

Bruce Magness · September 29, 2026

How to scrape Amazon product data in 2026

Bruce Magness · September 29, 2026

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 Diffbot Alternatives in 2026: 7 Tools Compared

Updated October 1, 2026

Firecrawl vs Bright Data for AI agents (2026)

Updated October 1, 2026

Oxylabs Alternatives 2026: 6 Tested, Plus Oxylabs vs Zyte

Updated September 29, 2026

String vs ScrapingAnt (2026): 100 protected sites

Updated September 24, 2026

String vs Scrapingdog (2026): 100 sites compared

Updated September 24, 2026
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