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Every product that needs data from the web ends up building the same thing: a scraper. Then a browser to run it in. Then proxies, because the target site notices. Then a job to fix it when the site's HTML changes and everything silently starts returning nulls.

ScoutLayer is the API so you don't have to build that. You call an endpoint or an MCP tool, you get back clean, typed JSON. We run the browsers, handle the anti-bot measures, and keep the parsers up to date when a source changes shape.

What's live today

Shopify App Store — app details, reviews, categories, developer profiles, and keyword rankings.
Reddit — subreddit feeds, posts, full comment trees, search, and user profiles.
Domain WHOIS — registrar, registrant/admin/tech contacts, and registration dates for any domain.
Traffic & Engagement — visit estimates, engagement metrics, and traffic-source breakdown for any domain.

Every endpoint is documented with real request/response examples and an in-browser playground — see the API Library once you're signed in, or browse the public API reference.

REST or MCP — same data, same credits

Call the REST API directly from your backend, or connect ScoutLayer's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible client and let your agent call it as a tool. Both surfaces hit the same live data and draw from the same credit balance, so you're never maintaining two integrations for one data source.

Credits, not a subscription

ScoutLayer runs on one-time credit packs instead of a monthly plan. Buy credits once, use them whenever — they never expire, so there's no clock running while you build. Every new account starts with 100 free credits, no card required.

What's next

Shopify App Store, Reddit, WHOIS, and traffic data are the start, not the whole plan — more sources are in active development. If there's a source you need, tell us — customer demand is what decides what we build next.

Get your API key and make your first call in under two minutes.

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Introducing ScoutLayer