Today we're excited to announce the public launch of Zipf AI—a new kind of web data infrastructure designed for the AI age.
The Problem
Building AI applications that need real-world data is harder than it should be. You need to:
- Search the web and get relevant results
- Crawl pages and extract structured data
- Monitor for changes over time
- All while managing rate limits, proxies, and parsing edge cases
We've spent the last year building the infrastructure to make this simple.
What is Zipf AI?
Zipf AI is a unified API for web data. With a single integration, you get:
Search API
Find anything on the web with AI-enhanced search. Query interpretation, semantic reranking, and intelligent suggestions help you find exactly what you're looking for.
import requests
response = requests.post("https://www.zipf.ai/api/v1/search",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"},
json={
"query": "AI infrastructure startups 2025",
"max_results": 20,
"interpret_query": True,
"rerank_results": True
}
)
Crawl API
Extract structured data from any website. Define your schema, and we handle the rest—JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and intelligent extraction.
response = requests.post("https://www.zipf.ai/api/v1/crawls",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"},
json={
"urls": ["https://example.com/products"],
"max_pages": 50,
"extraction_schema": {
"product_name": "Extract the product name",
"price": "Extract the price as a number",
"availability": "Is the product in stock?"
}
}
)
Sessions API
Chain operations together into multi-step research workflows with automatic URL deduplication and context accumulation.
Workflow API
Set up recurring monitors that watch for changes—product launches, price drops, news mentions—and get notified when conditions are met.
Why "Zipf"?
The name comes from Zipf's Law, which describes how a small number of items often account for a large proportion of a phenomenon. The most common word in English appears twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, and so on.
The same principle applies to web data: a small slice of the web contains most of the information relevant to any given task. Our job is to find that slice for you.
Getting Started
Sign up at zipf.ai and get 100 free credits to try the API. Check out our documentation for detailed guides and examples.
We can't wait to see what you build.
Questions? Reach out to support@zipf.ai or join our Discord community.
