Orthogonal is an API gateway and skill catalog for AI agents. You sign up once, fund a single account, and call any catalogued API — including every ScrapeGraph v2 endpoint — through a unified Run API, a TypeScript SDK, a CLI, an MCP server, or x402 stablecoin payments. No separate SGAI_API_KEY is required when calling ScrapeGraph through Orthogonal — your orth_live_… key is enough.

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Reference for every Orthogonal endpoint, SDK, CLI command, and MCP tool

• One key, many APIs. Combine ScrapeGraph with the rest of the Orthogonal catalog (Apollo, Hunter, Sixtyfour, Olostep, …) in a single agent without per-vendor signups.
• Pay-per-use credits or x402. Top up a balance, or pay providers directly with USDC on Base via x402. No subscription required.
• Native discovery. POST /v1/search finds endpoints by natural-language description; POST /v1/details returns the full parameter schema.
• Agent-ready surfaces. Drop-in TypeScript SDK, CLI, and MCP server — pick whichever matches your stack.

1. Create an account at orthogonal.com — new accounts include $5 of free credit.
2. Generate an API key in Dashboard → API Keys (orth_live_… for production, orth_test_… for development).
3. Export it:

export ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY="orth_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

That's it — there's no separate ScrapeGraph key to configure.

These map onto ScrapeGraph's v2 API (https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/*). If you previously called smartscraper, markdownify, or searchscraper directly, see the v1 → v2 transition guide.

Run orth api scrapegraph (CLI) or POST /v1/list-endpoints for the live, authoritative list and current pricing.

The TypeScript SDK wraps Orthogonal's Run API.

npm install @orth/sdk

import Orthogonal from "@orth/sdk";

const orthogonal = new Orthogonal({ apiKey: process.env.ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY });

const result = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "scrapegraph",
  path: "/v1/extract",
  body: {
    prompt: "Extract the company name, founders, and pricing tiers",
    url: "https://scrapegraphai.com",
  },
});

if (result.success) {
  console.log(result.data); // ScrapeGraph response payload
  console.log(`Cost: ${result.priceCents}¢, request_id: ${result.requestId}`);
}

The same pattern works for every ScrapeGraph endpoint — just change path and body. For asynchronous endpoints like /v1/crawl, poll GET /v1/crawl/{task_id} (also via orthogonal.run) until the job reaches a terminal state.

The CLI is ideal for one-off scrapes, ad-hoc research, and shell pipelines.

npm install -g @orth/cli

# Option 1: browser-based login (recommended)
orth login

# Option 2: pass the key explicitly
export ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY="orth_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

# Discover ScrapeGraph endpoints
orth search "web scraping"
# → scrapegraph     ScrapeGraph AI  (N endpoints)

# View the full ScrapeGraph endpoint list with prices
orth api scrapegraph

# View the parameter schema for a specific endpoint
orth api scrapegraph /v1/extract

# Run an extract
orth run scrapegraph /v1/extract \
  --body '{
    "prompt": "Extract pricing tiers",
    "url": "https://scrapegraphai.com"
  }'

The CLI returns the exact same JSON shape as the SDK, so output piping into jq or another tool works without translation.

ScrapeGraph endpoints are also reachable through Orthogonal's x402 gateway at https://x402.orth.sh/scrapegraph/<path>. Settlement is on Base (USDC); no pre-paid Orthogonal balance is required. The flow is the standard HTTP 402 protocol: your first request gets a 402 Payment Required with payment requirements, the client signs a payment authorization with your wallet, and the request is retried with an X-Payment header.

const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.PRIVATE_KEY); const fetchWithPayment = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, account);

const response = await fetchWithPayment("https://x402.orth.sh/scrapegraph/v1/extract", { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ prompt: "Extract pricing tiers", url: "https://scrapegraphai.com", }), });

const result = await response.json();

```python Python
import os
import requests
from eth_account import Account
from x402.clients.requests import x402_http_adapter

account = Account.from_key(os.getenv("PRIVATE_KEY"))
session = requests.Session()
session.mount("https://", x402_http_adapter(account))

response = session.post(
    "https://x402.orth.sh/scrapegraph/v1/extract",
    json={
        "prompt": "Extract pricing tiers",
        "url": "https://scrapegraphai.com",
    },
)
print(response.json())

Install:

# Node.js
npm install x402-fetch viem

# Python
pip install x402 eth-account

Orthogonal exposes the same metadata your agent needs to construct valid requests at runtime:

# Natural-language search
curl -X POST 'https://api.orthogonal.com/v1/search' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "prompt": "extract structured data from a webpage", "limit": 5 }'

# Full parameter schema for a specific endpoint
curl -X POST 'https://api.orthogonal.com/v1/details' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "api": "scrapegraph", "path": "/v1/extract" }'

# Code snippets in any supported format
curl -X POST 'https://api.orthogonal.com/v1/integrate' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "api": "scrapegraph", "path": "/v1/extract", "format": "all" }'

The format field on /v1/integrate accepts orth-sdk, run-api, curl, x402-fetch, x402-python, or all.

Orthogonal hosts an MCP server at https://mcp.orth.sh so Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, or any MCP-compatible client can call ScrapeGraph directly without writing glue code. Register it in your client's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orthogonal": {
      "url": "https://mcp.orth.sh"
    }
  }
}

Once installed the agent gets four tools — search, get_details, integrate, and use. Calling use with { api: "scrapegraph", path: "/v1/extract", body: {...} } runs the same call as the SDK example above.

See the Orthogonal MCP setup guide for client-specific configuration.

Every Orthogonal call (SDK, CLI, or /v1/run) returns the same envelope:

{
  "success": true,
  "priceCents": 4,
  "data": { /* raw ScrapeGraph response */ },
  "requestId": "run_xxxxxxxx"
}

On failure (e.g. insufficient credits, returned with HTTP 402):

{
  "success": false,
  "priceCents": 4,
  "error": "Insufficient credits. Cost: $0.04, Available: $0.00"
}

A 402 HTTP status indicates the balance is too low — top up via the dashboard or switch the call to the x402 gateway above.

• Orthogonal docs — full API reference
• Orthogonal Run API
• Orthogonal CLI
• Orthogonal MCP server
• x402 protocol — open HTTP 402 payment standard
• ScrapeGraph API reference