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🚨 Why OwnAPI? (The Problem with Scrapers)

Over 90% of enterprise and consumer workflows—airlines, local banking portals, legacy ERPs, regional e-commerce platforms, and healthcare systems— either have no public API or hide their real capabilities behind undocumented internal XHR/Fetch endpoints protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, PerimeterX (HUMAN), Akamai Bot Manager, and DataDome.

Today, engineering teams building AI Agents face two broken choices:

1. Traditional Scrapers (curl_cffi, residential proxies, headless Selenium):
   • Technically Fragile: Modern WAFs inspect TLS JA3/JA4 fingerprints, HTTP/2 frame ordering, Canvas/WebGL entropy, and behavioral telemetry. Spoofed requests break within days.
   • Legally Toxic: Bypassing access controls from third-party servers using rotating proxy pools violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and website Terms of Service—making it uninvestable and unusable for regulated enterprises.
2. Raw Cloud Browser Infrastructure (Browserbase / Raw Playwright DOM Agents):
   • Slow & Expensive: Letting an LLM click DOM elements step-by-step takes 30–90 seconds per task, burns $0.10–$0.50 in vision/DOM tokens per run, and fails whenever a CSS class changes.

🛡️ The OwnAPI Paradigm Shift: User-Delegated Browser Middleware

OwnAPI is not a scraper. Inspired by how Plaid pioneered user-delegated financial connectivity, OwnAPI acts as an authenticated, user-delegated browser middleware (User-Delegated In-Browser Fetch Tunnel):

• 100% Real Browser Execution (page.evaluate("fetch(...)")): Instead of spoofing TLS packets from a server, OwnAPI executes structured fetch() calls directly inside the user's real, authenticated Chromium browser context using the user's genuine IP, hardware fingerprint, and cookies.
• Compiler + 3x Auto-Test Validator Loop: You perform an action once in a browser window. OwnAPI intercepts the underlying JSON XHR/Fetch traffic, synthesizes a clean Python SDK & MCP connector via GPT-4o, and automatically runs 3 consecutive live validation tests—self-repairing any schema bugs before registering the tool.
• Self-Healing 2.0 (Nightly Auto-Repair): If a target website changes its internal API schema at 2:00 AM, OwnAPI's AutoRepairEngine detects the drift, re-captures live network traffic, rewrites client.py, and re-validates it with 3x Auto-Test automatically.
• Async Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Queue: When running unattended background agents (non_interactive=True), if a target site triggers a CAPTCHA or 2FA challenge, the agent never crashes—OwnAPI pauses the task in a persistent PENDING_USER_APPROVAL queue so a human operator can solve the challenge with one click from the CLI or Web Dashboard.
• Cryptographic ToS & User-Delegation Audit Trail: Every onboarding and execution logs a SHA-256 signed user-delegation consent record (.sessions/{tenant_id}/consent_audit.json), providing enterprise compliance teams with an immutable audit log.

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📊 How OwnAPI Compares

Capability	Traditional Scrapers (curl_cffi / Proxies)	Cloud Browser Infra (Browserbase / Raw Playwright)	⚡ OwnAPI (User-Delegated Middleware)
Execution Latency	~500ms (until blocked)	25s – 90s (LLM DOM clicking)	**1.5s – 3.0s (Direct In-Browser fetch()) **
WAF Survival (Cloudflare / PerimeterX / Akamai)	❌ Low (TLS/IP bans)	⚠️ Medium (Datacenter ASN flagged)	**✅ 100% (Genuine User Session + HITL Fallback) **
Self-Healing Schema Drift	❌ Manual rewrite required	⚠️ Brittle DOM selectors	✅ Automated Nightly AutoRepairEngine + 3x Validator
Legal & ToS Compliance Shield	❌ High Risk (Proxy evasion)	⚠️ Grey Area	✅ Plaid-Style User Delegation + SHA-256 Audit Log
Async Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Queue	❌ Crashes on CAPTCHA	❌ Manual custom code	✅ Built-in PENDING_USER_APPROVAL Queue & Replay
MCP & OpenAI Function-Calling Ready	❌ Raw HTML/JSON	❌ Requires custom wrapper	✅ Instant master_mcp.py & Unified OwnAPIClient
Marginal Cost per Call	$$$ (Residential Proxy GBs)	$$$ (Vision LLM + Cloud VM mins)	**$0.00 (Runs over compiled JSON tunnel) **

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🏗️ System Architecture

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                   AI AGENTS & ENTERPRISE CLIENTS                                  |
|         Claude Desktop / Cursor (MCP)   |   OpenAI Function Calling   |   REST API & Web UI       |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
                                          |
                                          v
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      5. ENTERPRISE WEB DASHBOARD, REST API & MASTER MCP SERVER                    |
|   server.py (FastAPI + static/index.html)   |   master_mcp.py (Dynamic FastMCP Tool Router)       |
|   own_api/sdk.py (OwnAPIClient)             |   core/consent.py (SHA-256 ToS Delegation Audit)    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         |                                                |                                  |
         | (1) Onboard & Compile                          | (2) Execute Tool Call            | (3) Nightly Cron (03:00)
         v                                                v                                  v
+----------------------------------+    +------------------------------------+    +---------------------------------+
|  1. RECORD, COMPILE & 3x VERIFY  |    | 2. USER-DELEGATED BROWSER TUNNEL   |    |  3. SELF-HEALING 2.0 ENGINE     |
|        (core/onboarding.py)      |    |   (healer.py & core/token_store)   |    |      (core/auto_repair.py)      |
|                                  |    |                                    |    |                                 |
| - Captures live XHR/Fetch JSON   |    | - Multi-Tenant Isolated Profiles   |    | - Runs validate_all_services()  |
| - Filters telemetry & noise      |    |   (.sessions/{tenant}/{service})   |    | - Detects schema/endpoint drift |
| - Synthesizes BaseOwnClient code |    | - Local Desktop Chrome OR Cloud    |    | - Re-captures live site traffic |
|   & JSON Schema via GPT-4o       |    |   CDP WebSocket (mode=local|cloud) |    | - GPT-4o AST self-repair loop   |
| - Runs 3x Live Auto-Test Loop    |    | - Executes in-page fetch() with    |    | - Writes timestamped audit to   |
| - Auto-repairs on failure        |    |   real cookies, IP & WebGL state   |    |   auto_repair_report.json       |
+----------------------------------+    +-----------------+------------------+    +---------------------------------+
                                                          |
                                    +---------------------+---------------------+
                                    | WAF / CAPTCHA / 2FA Challenge Detected?   |
                                    +---------------------+---------------------+
                                                          |
                            +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
                            | Interactive Mode                                          | Non-Interactive Agent Mode
                            v                                                           v
           +---------------------------------+                         +------------------------------------+
           |   Interactive Browser Prompt    |                         |  4. ASYNC HITL APPROVAL QUEUE      |
           | - Brings Chrome window to front |                         |       (core/hitl_queue.py)         |
           | - User solves CAPTCHA once      |                         | - Enqueues PENDING_USER_APPROVAL   |
           | - Harvests fresh cookies        |                         | - Saves to .sessions/hitl_queue    |
           | - Replays fetch() automatically |                         | - 1-Click Approve & Replay via     |
           +---------------------------------+                         |   Web Dashboard or `own-api queue` |
                                                                       +------------------------------------+

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🚀 30-Second Quickstart

1. Installation

git clone https://github.com/your-org/own-api.git
cd own-api
pip install -e .
playwright install chromium

Configure your OpenAI API key in .env (used for natural language routing, zero-code site compilation, and nightly self-healing):

echo "OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-api-key" > .env

2. Launch the Enterprise Web Dashboard & Live Playground

Start the FastAPI server and interactive SaaS Web Dashboard on http://localhost:8000:

own-api serve --port 8000

Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser to explore:

• Registry Marketplace: Inspect all 11 pre-built connectors with live 3/3 Auto-Test Verified badges.
• Live Playground: Execute natural language queries (POST /api/v1/ask) or direct parameterized tool calls (POST /api/v1/call) with real-time latency metrics.
• HITL Queue & Self-Healing 2.0: Trigger full-fleet validation (POST /api/v1/auto-repair) or approve pending CAPTCHA/2FA tasks with one click.
• ToS Consent Audit: Inspect cryptographic SHA-256 user-delegation signatures (GET /api/v1/consent).

3. CLI Commands (own-api)

# List all registered & 3x-verified connectors
own-api list

# Ask the AI Agent in natural language (automatically selects & runs the right tool)
own-api ask "What is the current stock price of NVDA on Yahoo Finance?"
own-api ask "Find the top 5 trending repositories for 'mcp server' on GitHub"
own-api ask "Search Bitcoin market cap and USD price on CoinGecko"

# Call a specific connector directly with JSON parameters
own-api call yahoo_finance --params '{"symbol": "NVDA"}' --tenant default --mode local

# Turn ANY website into a verified API in 60 seconds (Record -> Compile -> 3x Auto-Test)
own-api add stripe_docs --url "https://docs.stripe.com" --desc "Search Stripe documentation"

# Run Self-Healing 2.0 validation & automatic repair across all services
own-api validate --all

# Start the nightly background Self-Healing 2.0 daemon (runs daily at 03:00)
own-api auto-repair --daemon --schedule "03:00"

# Inspect and approve Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) tasks
own-api queue list
own-api queue approve <task_id>

4. Python SDK (OwnAPIClient)

Use OwnAPIClient directly inside your LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or custom agent pipelines:

from own_api import OwnAPIClient

# Initialize with multi-tenant isolation, execution mode ("local" or "cloud"), and HITL policy
client = OwnAPIClient(
    tenant_id="enterprise_user_42",
    mode="local",              # "local" (user's Chrome) or "cloud" (CDP WebSocket / Docker)
    non_interactive=False,     # Set True for background agents to enqueue CAPTCHAs to HITL Queue
    auto_accept_tos=True,      # Logs SHA-256 User-Delegation Consent signature
)

# 1. Direct deterministic connector call
nvda_quote = client.call("yahoo_finance", symbol="NVDA")
print(nvda_quote["quote"]["regularMarketPrice"])

# 2. Natural language agent execution (GPT-4o tool routing)
answer = client.ask("Compare Bitcoin price on CoinGecko and find top MCP repos on GitHub")
print(answer)

# 3. Export OpenAI Function-Calling / Tool definitions for your own agent loop
tools = client.get_openai_tools()

5. Connect to Claude Desktop / Cursor (MCP Server)

Add master_mcp.py to your claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "own-api": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["master_mcp.py"]
    }
  }
}

Every connector inside registry/ is automatically exposed as a strongly-typed MCP tool (own_yahoo_finance, own_coingecko, own_github_trending, own_thy, etc.) alongside meta-tools for health diagnostics and HITL queue management.

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🌐 Pre-Built Registry Marketplace

OwnAPI ships with 11 pre-built, live-tested connectors in registry/, all verified through our 3x Auto-Test Validator Loop (100% pass rate):

🌍 Global Developer, Finance & Knowledge Connectors

Service ID	Target Platform	Primary Method & Signature	Protection / Mode	Auto-Test Status
yahoo_finance	Yahoo Finance	get_stock_quote(symbol="NVDA")	Rate-Limited Financial Edge / In-Browser Tunnel	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
coingecko	CoinGecko	search_crypto(query="bitcoin")	Cloudflare WAF / In-Browser Tunnel	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
github_trending	GitHub	search_repositories(query="mcp server", limit=5)	GitHub API Edge / In-Browser Tunnel	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
hackernews	Hacker News (Algolia)	search_stories(query="AI", limit=5)	Cloudfront / In-Browser Tunnel	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
wikipedia	Wikipedia REST API	search_summary(query="Artificial intelligence", lang="en")	Wikimedia Edge / In-Browser Tunnel	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)

✈️ Enterprise Airlines & E-Commerce Connectors (High-WAF Showcase)

Service ID	Target Platform	Primary Method & Signature	WAF / Bot Protection	Auto-Test Status
thy	Turkish Airlines	search_flights(origin="IST", destination="SAW", date=...)	Akamai + PerimeterX (HUMAN)	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
pegasus	Pegasus Airlines	search_flights(origin="SAW", destination="AYT", date=...)	Cloudflare Enterprise	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
enuygun	Enuygun Travel	search_flights(origin="IST", destination="ADB", date=...)	Cloudflare Turnstile	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
ucak_bileti	Uçak Bileti	search_flights(origin="IST", destination="ESB", date=...)	WAF + Session Token Guard	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
trendyol	Trendyol E-Commerce	search_products(query="iphone", limit=5)	Cloudflare + Custom Anti-Bot	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)
hepsiburada	Hepsiburada Marketplace	search_products(query="laptop", limit=5)	Akamai Bot Manager	✅ BAŞARILI (3/3)

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🖥️ Enterprise Web Dashboard & REST API

When you run own-api serve --port 8000, server.py exposes a complete REST API for your internal microservices alongside the single-page SaaS Dashboard (static/index.html):

Endpoint	Method	Description
/	GET	Serves the 4-tab TailwindCSS Dark-Mode Enterprise Web Dashboard & Live Playground.
/api/v1/services	GET	Lists all registered services, schemas, validation_status, and fleet-wide validation_rate.
/api/v1/call	POST	Executes a deterministic service call (service, params, tenant_id, mode, non_interactive) with latency tracking.
/api/v1/ask	POST	Runs the natural language GPT-4o agent across all registered tools (prompt, tenant_id).
/api/v1/validate/{service}	POST	Triggers the 3x Auto-Test Validator Loop (+ GPT-4o self-repair if needed) for a single service.
/api/v1/auto-repair	POST	Triggers AutoRepairEngine.validate_all_services() across the entire registry and saves the audit report.
/api/v1/auto-repair/report	GET	Returns the latest .sessions/auto_repair_report.json health & repair telemetry.
/api/v1/hitl/queue	GET	Returns all PENDING_USER_APPROVAL and resolved Human-in-the-Loop tasks.
/api/v1/hitl/approve/{task_id}	POST	Opens the interactive browser window for the human operator to solve CAPTCHA/2FA and replays the queued request.
/api/v1/consent	GET	Returns the cryptographic SHA-256 User-Delegation & ToS consent audit trail across all tenants.

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🔒 Security, Privacy & Legal Architecture

1. Zero Credential Harvesting: OwnAPI never asks for or stores plaintext usernames or passwords. Authentication happens directly inside the user's local Chrome profile (.sessions/{tenant_id}/chrome_profile_{service}).
2. Multi-Tenant Isolation: Every tenant's cookies, browser storage, and consent audit logs are strictly isolated under .sessions/{tenant_id}/.
3. Explicit User Delegation (core/consent.py): Before onboarding a target site or executing delegated calls, OwnAPI records a timestamped, SHA-256 hashed attestation confirming the user is acting as an authorized human account holder delegating their own browser session.

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📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. Built for the global AI Agent ecosystem.