Webz.io

Webz.io is an Israeli web data provider that crawls and structures content from the open, deep, and dark web and delivers it through APIs and data feeds. The company, formerly known as Webhose.io, serves use cases including media monitoring, risk intelligence, cybersecurity, and financial analysis^[1].

Its product line includes a News API covering more than 350,000 sources in over 170 languages, blogs and forums APIs, an e-commerce reviews API, and dark web products such as a Dark Web API and a data breach detection API, along with Lunar, a dark web monitoring platform^[1].

What It Does

Webz.io continuously crawls web content and returns it as structured, enriched records with metadata and entity information that can be filtered by query. The company describes its mission as pulling, organizing, and enriching data from across the open, deep, and dark web to power AI and intelligence products^[1].

Products

Open web products include the News API, a semantic Search API, the Blogs API covering more than 1.2 million blogs, an Online Forums API capturing over 4 million daily posts from nearly 11,000 forums, a Reviews API drawing on more than 150 marketplaces, and archived historical data^[1]. Dark web products include the Dark Web API and the Data Breach Detection API; the company also operates Lunar for compromised-credential monitoring^[1].

Buyers and Use Cases

Documented solutions include media monitoring and PR, risk intelligence, cybersecurity threat intelligence, fraud detection, and alternative data for finance^[1]. For quant investors, Webz.io news and forums feeds are used as inputs to sentiment and event-detection models; the company maintains a dedicated alternative data practice for financial analysis^[1]. Testimonials on its site cite customers including Mention and Isentia using its feeds for media monitoring products^[1].

Delivery and Pricing

Data is delivered via REST APIs, data feeds, and a self-service portal with a free entry tier; the company describes pricing that starts with pay-as-you-go plans and scales to high-volume enterprise contracts^[1]. Historical data is available through its archived data product^[1].

History

The company was founded as Webhose.io and rebranded to Webz.io, announcing the name change on LinkedIn and updating its website and API branding; Crunchbase maintains its corporate profile under the original webhose listing^[3][2]. The company is based in Israel^[3].