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Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS

Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

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Score Breakdown

Latency8/10
Token Efficiency4/10
Consistency3/10
Documentation3/10
First-Try Success3/10
Error Clarity2/10
Auth Simplicity2/10
Parseability2/10

Benchmark Analysis Log

Full LLM thinking from the 4-phase benchmark pipeline.

Analyze
{
  "service_type": "platform",
  "base_url": "http://www.jamapi.xyz",
  "auth_method": "none",
  "auth_config": {},
  "endpoints": [],
  "pricing_model": {"type": "unknown", "details": {}},
  "rate_limits": {},
  "capabilities": ["scraping", "data extraction", "json generation"],
  "raw_analysis": "Jam API is a service that converts any website into a JSON API using CSS selectors. It is designed for developers who need to extract structured data from websites without a dedicated API. The platform appears to be a tool that allows users to define CSS selectors for data extraction and exposes the data as a JSON API. The service is likely aimed at web scraping and data integration use cases. However, at the time of analysis, the website is behind a Cloudflare browser verification check, preventing direct access to the actual service. The provided HTML content is a Cloudflare challenge page, not the actual service. Therefore, detailed information about API endpoints, authentication, pricing, and rate limits could not be obtained. Based on the description, the platform is a scraper tool that provides a JSON API for any site, likely using a user-defined configuration with CSS selectors. The maturity is unknown but it appears to be an early-stage project, possibly from a Show HN post. It may have limited documentation and support. Integration possibilities include web scraping workflows, data pipelines, and backend data enrichment."
}
Execute

3/3 tests passed

TestEndpointStatusLatency
website_uptimeGET /200127ms
robots_txtGET /robots.txt20060ms
llms_txtGET /llms.txt20062ms
Interpret
```json
{
  "overall": 42,
  "dimensions": {
    "token_efficiency": 4.0,
    "first_try_success": 3.0,
    "response_parseability": 2.0,
    "error_clarity": 2.0,
    "doc_quality": 3.0,
    "auth_simplicity": 2.0,
    "latency": 7.5,
    "consistency": 3.0
  },
  "pricing_normalized": {
    "model": "unknown"
  },
  "issues": [
    "All checks return 'Checking your browser...' challenge pages - bot protection blockades AI agents and prevents automated onboarding",
    "No llms.txt content - only browser challenge HTML instead of machine-readable docs",
    "Pricing model completely unknown from available data",
    "No capabilities beyond generic scraping/data extraction; unclear value proposition",
    "robots.txt shows aggressive crawl-delay of 10 seconds for major bots"
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Provide a clear llms.txt with capabilities, endpoints, auth methods, and documentation URLs",
    "Remove or whitelist AI agent user agents from browser challenge checks (or provide token-based access with clear docs)",
    "Publish explicit pricing tiers and API response schemas",
    "Add a 'Getting Started for AI Agents' guide for developers",
    "Reduce crawl delay for LLM crawlers from 10s to ≤1s"
  ]
}
```

Agent Readiness

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Streaming
No
Sandbox
None
Agent Auth
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SDKs
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MCP Support
No

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