Do you like
fish sticks?
Good. We like clean Markdown.
A perfectly serious scraping API.
A deeply unserious name.
Good. We like clean Markdown.
A perfectly serious scraping API.
A deeply unserious name.
Scrape a page. Crawl a site. Render JavaScript when you need it. Get the content your agent actually came for.
Thousands of URLs? Try Fish Stick Buffet for batch downloads and summaries.
curl https://gayfish.dev/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'Bring your API key. We'll bring the fish.
In “Fishsticks,” a joke about fish sticks goes everywhere. Kanye takes it very, very literally. Things get aquatic.
We took the name. Then built a web scraping API around it. An entirely reasonable sequence of decisions.
The original: Fishsticks, Season 13, Episode 5 ↗Ten jokes. One genius still requesting an explanation.
Tap a setup for the punchline.
Three million tokens later, it asked if I’d considered that Kanye might be a very misunderstood marine biologist.
It raised a seed round. Then a breadcrumb round. Then got acquired by a man standing over the sink at 2 a.m.
Four minutes of air-fryer noises. The critics called it heated. He called himself a battered genius.
Its mother was a cod. Its father was a conveyor belt. Its lawyer says we’re done here.
“Something you love putting in your mouth.” Account locked after 47 attempts at “my own genius.”
Turns out that was steam. We’re calling it a migration incident.
The peer review said “sir, this is a freezer.” He demanded a warmer reception.
We wrapped it in foil. It now describes itself as a privacy advocate and a burrito.
Got rate-limited by a whale. Filed a complaint about big krill.
Just kidding. It bought another domain.
Five things here are less serious than they look.
The Institute of Self-Certified Genius · Est. five snacks ago
Awarded for feeding a fish five times and asking absolutely no follow-up questions.
Thesis: “If I were a fish, would I not know?”
Peer review: three other fish in sunglasses.
Signed,
The Dean (also this fish)
A completely independent investigation, conducted by me
1. I like fish sticks.
2. I am a genius.
3. Therefore, the ocean is wrong.
Conclusion: the joke has a bug.
Issue closed as “cannot reproduce on land.”
All 47 pages of the rebuttal are waterproof.
Kitchen diagnostics · absolutely not a real API response
HTML soup contained:
418 teapots
1 div with abandonment issues
0 evidence that this fish gets the joke
HTTP: 200 OK
Comprehension: 404 Not Found
Ego: 413 Content Too Large
Recommended fix: clear the cache. The fish heard “cash” and hired a manager.
Terms of the sea · legally binding only to plankton
We use no tracking cookies on this page. This is because somebody ate the breadcrumbs.
All disputes shall be settled by an impartial school of fish. The school is home-schooled. By this fish.
Your right to remain silent is respected.
The fish has waived his.
These terms were reviewed by our legal department: a lobster with a briefcase.
Genius mode unlocked · no actual privileges granted
New album. Same inability to understand a joke.
01. Can't Tell Me Salmon
02. All of the Plankton
03. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fish Tank
Certified platinum. By a very shiny sardine.