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   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "The Decodo help page documents the Decodo MCP server for scraping websites, search engines, ecommerce sites, and social media from an AI client.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "name",
   "note": "The Web Data API introduction is Decodo's documentation for collecting web data.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "The mcp-server repository is in the Decodo GitHub organization. GitHub reported a push on 2026-10-16 and archived false.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Decodo/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "The quick start says to activate the free plan or choose a paid plan. The license is freemium.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "Callers use the hosted base URL https://data.decodo.com/v1. The product is a hosted API.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "Decodo documents the Web Data API for scrape, search, crawl, and map.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "The documented example is an HTTPS POST to https://data.decodo.com/v1/scrape with a JSON body. The page organizes the surface as resource endpoints.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "Every Web Data API endpoint uses the same API key in Authorization Bearer.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "The MCP README still documents Authorization Basic with a Web Scraping API token for older plans. It says those legacy tokens do not replace the Web Data API bearer key.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Decodo/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Opened endpoints are /scrape, /search, /crawl, and /map. Crawl is capped at 10,000 pages in the introduction. Proxy-account administration was not opened, so coverage of the whole Decodo account is partial.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened as the current Web Data API introduction.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Decodo help documents the hosted server at https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp and the local package @decodo/mcp-server.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.verdict",
   "note": "The Decodo organization README documents bearer and basic credentials and toolsets named web, search, ecommerce, social_media, and ai.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Decodo/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "The MCP help page says outputs include JSON.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[1]",
   "note": "The same page says outputs include Markdown and screenshots. Markdown is the text export recorded here.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "Opened the help-center llms.txt index. It links the Web Data API and MCP documentation.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "A documented bearer HTTP API with four collection endpoints, sync and async modes, and a free plan is practical. The legacy-token split and the unopened proxy-admin API keep the score at 7.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "A vendor-maintained hosted MCP server with selectable toolsets is a 7. Two credential styles, and the help page example that still shows only Basic, keep it short of 8.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Decodo/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Web Data API introduction, including Bearer auth and the four endpoints.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Decodo MCP help page.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/docs/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
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   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Decodo help index.",
   "source": "https://help.decodo.com/llms.txt",
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   {
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    "url": "https://github.com/Decodo/mcp-server"
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    "basic"
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  },
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   "viability": "unknown"
  },
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    "markdown"
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   "import": []
  },
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   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. Decodo's documented machine paths for web data are the Web Data API and the Decodo MCP server. This record is not Apify or Firecrawl.\n",
   "ui_stack": [],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
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 "name": "Decodo",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
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 "related": {
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   "apify",
   "firecrawl"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Decodo",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 7,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 7,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "search": {
   "description": "Decodo documents a Bearer Web Data API for scrape, search, crawl, and map, plus a hosted MCP server that uses the same credentials.",
   "title": "Decodo web data is automatable through its API"
  },
  "summary": "Decodo web data is automatable today through the Web Data API. The base URL is https://data.decodo.com/v1. Documented endpoints are /scrape, /search, /crawl, and /map. /crawl can cover up to 10,000 pages. One API key is sent as Authorization Bearer. Synchronous calls return in the same response. /crawl is asynchronous, and /scrape can also be queued. A free plan is linked from the introduction, alongside paid plans. Legacy Web Scraping API tokens do not work on Web Data API. Decodo's MCP server is hosted at https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp and is also published as @decodo/mcp-server in the Decodo GitHub organization. The README, pushed on 2026-10-16, recommends the Web Data API bearer key and still accepts a Basic token for older Web Scraping API plans. Toolsets are web, search, ecommerce, social_media, and ai. The help-center MCP example that was also opened shows a Basic header. Zapier, Make, Power Automate, and n8n were not opened. No Decodo CLI was established. Computer-use viability is unassessed. The API and the MCP server each score 7. The API is the best path because the MCP server is a client of the same web-data credentials.\n"
 }
}