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Fast-path lookups — no credentials needed

For these sites, common questions resolve in 1-4 seconds because we maintain structured indexes against them. Just phrase the question naturally; stablebrowse figures out the best data path.

Hacker News

top, new, best, ask, show, jobs; story details; comments

Wikipedia

search, article, summary, sections, references, recent changes, random

Stack Overflow

search, question, answers, tags, users

Steam

search, app details, reviews, featured, categories

Yelp

search, business details, autocomplete

Amazon

search, product, deals, bestsellers, departments

Airbnb

search, listing, dates, guests, amenities

Craigslist

search by city + category

GitHub

repos, issues, PRs, code search

Google Flights

search by origin / destination / dates

LeetCode

problems, filters, difficulty, tags

Redfin

listings, properties, sale / rent

Starbucks

locations, hours, menu

Uber

fare estimates, ride types

Walmart

search, products, deals

Zillow

listings, properties, sale / rent

Authenticated platforms

For these platforms stablebrowse uses each site’s internal APIs through an authenticated browser session. You supply the end-user’s cookies via the credentials endpoint, the system calls the right API for the question, and results come back in 5-30 seconds.
Cookies needed: twitter_auth_token, twitter_ct0Capabilities: searching tweets, fetching a user’s timeline or replies, user profiles, home timeline, trending topics, following lists.How to get the cookies: log in to x.com in a browser → DevTools → Application → Cookies → copy auth_token and ct0.
Cookies needed: reddit_session (only for authenticated features like fetching your own profile)Capabilities: browsing subreddits, searching posts, reading comment threads. Most features work without any cookies.
Cookies needed for auth-gated features: tiktok_session_id, tiktok_csrf_tokenCapabilities: hashtag pages, trending, user profiles, video detail, comments, search users, followers/following, your own profile. Public features (hashtag, trending, video, profile) work without cookies.
Cookies needed for auth-gated features: youtube_sid, youtube_hsid, youtube_ssid, youtube_sapisidCapabilities: search, video detail, comments, channels, home feed, subscriptions feed, watch history, playlists. Search, video detail, comments, and channel pages work without cookies.
Cookies needed: instagram_session_id, instagram_csrf_token, instagram_ds_user_idCapabilities: profiles, full profiles, searching reels, hashtag posts, and more.
Credentials needed: an Exa API key (for search) + optional LinkedIn session cookies for richer profile data.Tooling uses Exa’s LinkedIn index as primary, with Apify as a real-time fallback when the cache misses.
Cookies needed for auth-gated features: doordash_session_id, doordash_csrf_tokenCapabilities: search food, get restaurant menus.

Everything else on the web

Any site not listed above runs through the full browser agent — the system reads the page, plans its next action, clicks, scrolls, and extracts. Works for most of the public web: blogs, news, dashboards, one-off research. Typically 10-60 seconds per task. This is also the fallback when a site IS in the fast-path list but the specific question doesn’t fit a pre-indexed pattern.

Credential storage

All credentials are encrypted at rest via AWS KMS. They’re attached to a specific (businessId, endUserId) pair and never returned in any GET response — the status endpoint only says “configured: true/false” per platform. Delete them at any time via DELETE /v1/end-users/{id}/credentials.

Adding a platform

If a site you care about isn’t in the fast-path list and the agent struggles with it, let us know. We add dedicated indexes based on customer demand.