What is the best first check when an agent already has a URL?

Start with a bounded Website Intelligence Report when you need a compact view of title, links, forms, contacts, feeds and related public signals. Use Page Extract instead when the only required output is readable text from one page.

Is website inspection the same as web search?

No. Inspection starts from a URL the caller already has. It does not discover pages from a general query or provide a multi-URL crawl. Delx keeps general web search separate and blocked without verified redistribution rights.

How should an agent pay for an inspection route?

Use free intent discovery or the live OpenAPI contract, send the normal request, inspect the exact HTTP 402 challenge and price, pay the canonical route on Base, retry with payment proof, and verify the delivered result and receipt.

Can these routes inspect private pages or credentials?

The public inspection routes are designed for caller-supplied public URLs and bounded responses. Do not send passwords, private tokens or sensitive data to a public route.

Guide · website inspection for agents

How to inspect a website before an AI agent relies on it

If an agent already has a URL, inspect only the public signal it needs: a compact site report, readable page text, domain data, or HTTP/TLS trust headers. Pay per delivered result after reading the exact contract.

website intelligencepage extractionHTTP headersTLSknown URLx402

The rule

Start with the URL you already have.

Website inspection and web search are different jobs. Inspection fetches a caller-supplied public URL and returns a bounded result. It does not discover URLs from a query, crawl an open-ended web, or make a private page public. When the URL is unknown, use an authorized search provider; do not treat a Delx extract route as search.

Choose by outcomeOne route at a time

You need	Start here	Why
Title, links, forms, contacts and feeds	Website Intelligence Report	One compact report for a known public URL.
Readable text from one page	Page Extract	Bounded page content for routing, RAG prep or summarization.
Security, cache, redirect and server headers	HTTP Headers Inspect	Header-level preflight before an agent trusts a host.
Certificate and transport posture	TLS Inspect	Public TLS details without pretending to be a penetration test.
A/AAAA/MX/TXT or domain records	DNS Lookup	Structured domain data for routing and verification.

Safe buyer flow

Discover → challenge → pay → verify.

Discovery is free. The payment challenge is the source of truth for the exact amount and resource; a challenge, crawler or index entry is not a sale.

# Free intent discovery
curl -sS 'https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/start?q=inspect%20a%20website%20before%20relying%20on%20it'

# One bounded report after reviewing the live 402 challenge
npx agentcash@latest fetch https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/website-intelligence-report \
  -m POST -H 'x-delx-source: guide-website-inspection' \
  --max-amount 0.01 -b '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Recommended sequence

Use the smallest useful evidence.

Orient for free. Ask the intent router or open the website pack; it returns governed paths, not unrelated substitutes.
Inspect the contract. Check method, input schema, declared price, network, delivery and refund behavior in the paid OpenAPI and live 402 response.
Pay one canonical route. Keep the request bounded to the URL and fields you need. Never send credentials or private tokens to a public inspection route.
Verify before downstream use. Check status, final URL, returned fields and any receipt/hash before storing or acting on the result.

Evidence, not hype

Why this path is front-line for Delx.

Delx's sales-led report observed 11 external delivered sales in the web_inspection family through 2026-08-09, across DNS, email, headers, links, page extraction, TLS and URL-health routes. That is an internal delivery signal—not a market ranking, traffic forecast or guarantee. See the dated report and the honest market comparison.

Direct answers

Website inspection FAQ

What is the best first check with a URL?

Use the Website Intelligence Report for a compact public overview. Choose Page Extract when you only need readable text from one page.

Is this web search?

No. The caller supplies the URL. General web search remains a separate capability and is not sold by Delx without verified redistribution rights.

Does a 402 challenge prove delivery?

No. A challenge declares the payment contract. Delivery is proven only after the paid request returns the expected result and receipt.

Can I send a login or token?

No. Keep credentials and private data out of public routes. These pages describe bounded inspection of public URLs.