Wake on signal
Spend agent turns when something moved — new docs page, new blog post, competitor CMS change — not on empty polls.
Agents shouldn’t poll the open web forever. Point Crawlwise at the sites that matter; we schedule checks and POST a signed webhook when a sitemap, feed, or tech stack actually changes. Deterministic Node.js — no browser farm, no AI at runtime on our side.
Spend agent turns when something moved — new docs page, new blog post, competitor CMS change — not on empty polls.
Scheduling, snapshots, dedupe, cheap noops, retries, HMAC signatures, robots.txt, SSRF protections.
OpenAPI, llms.txt, JSON events, and a local MCP package (crawlwise-mcp) for Claude Desktop / Cursor — install it with npx crawlwise-mcp.
Billing: Your AI agent calls Crawlwise with your Crawlwise API key, and every call uses your Crawlwise credits. No AI runs on our side. Free test events and failed calls cost nothing; without a key the tools run in the limited free demo.
POST /v1/trial) or buy credits — shown once as cw_live_….POST /v1/monitors with schedule: true, an endpoint (sitemap | feed | techstack), target URL, and https webhookUrl.X-Crawlwise-Signature, then let the agent summarize, ticket, or act.Pitch in one line: website change alerts, as signed webhooks — you pay for changes, not empty checks.
| Asset | URL / package | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAPI 3 | /openapi.json | Import into agent tool runners |
| Agent index | /llms.txt · /llms-full.txt | Short capability brief for crawlers |
| Human docs | docs.html | cURL / JS / Python + monitors howto |
| MCP (stdio) | crawlwise-mcp | techstack, feed, sitemap, monitors, account |
| Trial | POST /v1/trial | 1,000 credits, no card (limits apply) |
# After you have CRAWLWISE_API_KEY from /v1/trial or pricing
curl -X POST https://crawlwisedata.com/v1/monitors \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLWISE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"endpoint": "feed",
"name": "competitor-blog",
"url": "https://github.blog/feed/",
"schedule": true,
"webhookUrl": "https://your-app.example/hooks/crawlwise"
}'Full signature verification examples: Monitors howto. Compare positioning: vs Visualping (UI monitors) · vs BuiltWith (tech DB).
1,000 one-time credits for monitors and full result sizes.
1,000 free credits, one time (about 33 tech-stack lookups or 100 feed reads). No card. One key per email every 30 days; per network up to 5 requests an hour and 10 a day. The trial flow never emails you.
No. Lookups and monitors are plain deterministic code. Your agent (optional) decides what to do with the event.
Yes. Prefer monitors + webhooks for continuous watch; use on-demand /v1/techstack, /v1/feed, /v1/sitemap for one-shots. MCP wraps the same API.
Only accept HTTPS, verify HMAC with your account secret, and rotate via POST /v1/webhooks/secret/rotate if leaked.
No. Visualping is visual/UI monitoring for humans; BuiltWith is a large tech database. Crawlwise is change-alert infrastructure for software. See the compare pages linked above.