The marketplace
Before you build an API from scratch, search the marketplace — thousands are already built and free to use.
One API per site, shared by everyone
Every site in Parse has a single, community-maintained API called the canonical. When you create an API for a site that already has one, you don't start over — you get your own copy, linked back to the canonical. The build is instant and free, because the work is already done.
Find it before you build it
Search across names, descriptions, and individual endpoints. When you know the data you want but not which API has it, search endpoints directly and jump straight to the right one.
curl "https://api.parse.bot/marketplace/apis?q=amazon&limit=10"Or browse it visually in the Discover catalog — filter by category and preview every endpoint before you commit.
Four ways to use one
There's a path for every level of control:
- Call the canonical directly — simplest; always runs the latest shared version with just your API key.
- Subscribe — your own copy pinned to the current release, so upstream changes never break your contract until you merge them.
- Fork privately — an isolated copy you can customize freely, with no upstream merges.
- Dispatch by URL — paste a URL and Parse matches an existing canonical or builds a new one.
Contribute back, for free
Found one that's close but not exact? Fork it, revise it in plain English, and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes. Browsing, subscribing, and contributing back to the public catalog never cost credits.
Read the full reference on the canonical model, subscribing, forking, and private off-catalog builds in the marketplace docs.
Build your first API in two minutes.
Describe any site in a sentence. Parse ships a typed REST API and an MCP server — 200 free credits, no card.