# Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data

> Free web lookups; PDF to Markdown, audio transcripts, screenshots, WHOIS/DNS paid per call via x402.

- name: dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research
- version: 1.1.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 82/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 91/100 (strong)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools%2Fweb-research
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools%2Fweb-research/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-research": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 99
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-97% +updated-8d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 91/100 (strong)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 12 of 12 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 4,701 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: 3 tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 12, about 4,701 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: b2fb2b3152a92afb9909f879521de1c1
- tools last changed: 2026-10-12T14:55:30.733Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-12 `website_screenshot` added
  - Screenshot one public web page in a headless browser: desktop (1440x900) or mobile (390x844) viewport, PNG or JPEG, returned as an image. Viewport only, no logins or scripts; follows robots.txt and does not get past bot walls; at most one screenshot every 10 seconds across all callers. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per page. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- 2026-10-12 `transcribe_short_audio` added
  - Transcribe one short audio file (direct public URL to MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC or WebM; one file up to 2 MB and 20 minutes) with Whisper large-v3-turbo, or translate it to English: text, timed segments, WebVTT and detected language. No YouTube or social media pages. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- 2026-10-12 `document_to_markdown` added
  - Convert one document at a public URL to Markdown from its text layer: PDF, Word DOCX, Excel XLSX/XLSM/XLSB/XLS, OpenDocument ODS/ODT, CSV, HTML, XML or Apple Numbers, up to 10 MB, Markdown up to 250,000 characters. Not OCR: scanned PDFs, images, PPTX and encrypted files are refused and not charged. Paid only: $0.004 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools%2Fweb-research/changes

## Remotes

- https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.969697)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (12)

- `document_to_markdown`: Convert one document at a public URL to Markdown from its text layer: PDF, Word DOCX, Excel XLSX/XLSM/XLSB/XLS, OpenDocument ODS/ODT, CSV, HTML, XML or Apple Numbers, up to 10 MB, Markdown up to 250,000 characters. Not OCR: scanned PDFs, images, PPTX and encrypted files are refused and not charged. Paid only: $0.004 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `domain_intel`: Who a domain is registered with and since when (RDAP: registrar, created, expires, age, status, nameservers, DNSSEC), its DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA) and email setup (provider, SPF and DMARC policy). No registrant personal data. Paid only: up to 3 domains per call for $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `page_to_markdown`: Read web pages: returns each page's main content as clean Markdown without navigation, scripts or ads (headings, lists, absolute links, tables, code blocks), plus title, description, language, canonical URL and word count; up to 100,000 characters per page. Does not get past bot walls. Paid only: up to 3 URLs per call for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `robots_txt_check`: Crawl preflight: whether each user agent may fetch each URL under the site's robots.txt (RFC 9309, longest match, '*' fallback), with crawl-delay, the sitemaps robots.txt lists and whether the site publishes /llms.txt. Default agents: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Googlebot, Bingbot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and *. Paid only: up to 5 URLs per call for $0.001 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `rss_to_json`: Read news feeds or blogs as clean JSON: accepts feed URLs or plain site URLs (finds the feed via <link rel=alternate>), normalises RSS 0.9x/2.0, RDF, Atom and JSON Feed to one item schema (title, url, publishedAt, author, categories, summary), up to 100 items per feed. Free for 1 feed; up to 5 feeds per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `seo_meta_tags_check`: On-page SEO audit of web pages: title and meta description lengths, canonical, robots/noindex and X-Robots-Tag, H1/H2, hreflang, Open Graph, Twitter card and JSON-LD rich-result checks, with machine-readable issue codes. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 3 URLs per call cost $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `sitemap_urls`: List the pages of a website from its sitemaps: finds them via robots.txt or common paths, follows sitemap indexes, reads gzip, text and feed sitemaps, returns URLs with lastmod. Free: up to 2,000 URLs from 12 sitemap files. With bulk=true: up to 5,000 URLs from 20 files for $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `tech_stack_lookup`: Detect what a website is built with: CMS, frameworks, analytics, CDN, hosting, email and DNS providers (MX, SPF, DMARC) and a security-header grade, from one fetch of its homepage. Free for 1 domain per call (10 free calls a minute per IP); 2-3 domains in one call cost $0.005 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `ted_tender_search`: Search EU public procurement notices (tenders, contract notices, awards) on TED through the official API v3: keywords, optional buyer country and open-deadline filter, newest first. Free: the 25 newest matches. With bulk=true or page: 100 notices per page, pages 1-50, for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `transcribe_short_audio`: Transcribe one short audio file (direct public URL to MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC or WebM; one file up to 2 MB and 20 minutes) with Whisper large-v3-turbo, or translate it to English: text, timed segments, WebVTT and detected language. No YouTube or social media pages. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `url_status_check`: Check whether links are alive: HTTP status, every redirect hop, final URL and a classification (ok, redirect, broken, restricted, blocked_by_site, disallowed_by_robots_txt, timeout). HEAD first, GET to confirm errors. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 10 URLs per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
- `website_screenshot`: Screenshot one public web page in a headless browser: desktop (1440x900) or mobile (390x844) viewport, PNG or JPEG, returned as an image. Viewport only, no logins or scripts; follows robots.txt and does not get past bot walls; at most one screenshot every 10 seconds across all callers. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per page. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
