# Steel API on looot

Steel API gives your agent 3 jobs through looot: scrape a web page into markdown, take a screenshot of a web page, get pdf. 3 endpoints run today, from $0.005 per call.

## At a glance

- Category: Enrichment
- Access: Runs on looot's platform key: you do not need your own Steel API account
- Price: from $0.005

## Choose it when

- You want the best run record to scrape a web page into markdown: 95.2% of 84 runs without an error, median 5.9 s over 30 days, the highest of 8 providers with 10+ runs.
- You need to get pdf: Steel API is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.

## Endpoints and jobs

| Endpoint | Job | Price | Runs (30 days) | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Scrape a web page to markdown or HTML](/public-catalog/steel-scrape) | `web.scrape.markdown` | $0.005 per call | 95.2% of 84 runs without an error, median 5.9 s | [Scrape a web page into markdown](/benchmarks/web-scrape-markdown) |
| [Capture webpage screenshot](/public-catalog/steel-screenshot) | `web.screenshot` | $0.005 per call | not enough runs to rank | no benchmark yet |
| [Convert webpage to PDF](/public-catalog/steel-pdf) | `pdf.get` | $0.005 per call | not enough runs to rank | no benchmark yet |

## How the numbers are measured

Run numbers are looot's own runs of each endpoint over the last 30 days: the share that completed without an error, and the median time to answer. An endpoint with fewer than 10 runs in that window shows "not enough runs to rank" and is never ranked. Prices are what looot charges per call or per result, fee included, read from the live catalog; you prepay credit and each call is charged when it runs.

Read 2026-11-10 23:22 UTC.

## Related pages

- [Steel API MCP](/mcp/steel)

## For agents

The minimal request for Scrape a web page to markdown or HTML (`steel-scrape`). Replace each <placeholder> with your value and send a new idempotency key per run.

### MCP

```json
{
  "endpointId": "steel-scrape",
  "input": {
    "url": "<url>"
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "<a new id per run>"
}
```

### REST

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"steel-scrape","input":{"url":"<url>"},"idempotencyKey":"<a new id per run>"}'
```

### CLI

```bash
looot run steel-scrape --input '{"url":"<url>"}'
```