# Olostep Batches

> Olostep Batches is a paid API for AI agents from Olostep API at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Starts a new batch web scraping/extraction job and returns a batch ID for progress tracking

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/olostep/v1/batches?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Olostep API
- Docs: https://api.olostep.com
- Website: https://api.olostep.com
- Tags: scraping, extraction, search, crawl, web
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/olostep-api-olostep-batches-86c1dd73
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EfjD-5bOujAJolgYQQ0LN

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability olostep-api-olostep-batches-86c1dd73 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Start a batch scrape job for these 50 URLs so I can extract the product prices and descriptions from each page — I want a batch ID back so I can check on the progress.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to scrape or extract data from multiple URLs in bulk rather than one at a time. Prefer this over the single Scrapes endpoint when processing large lists of pages where individual calls would be inefficient. Use when you need asynchronous processing with progress tracking for large-scale web data extraction workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed URLs in the batch input return a 400 error
- Authentication failure returns 401 unauthorized
- Exceeding batch size limits returns a 422 or 400 validation error
- Server-side errors during batch creation return 500
- Malformed request body missing required fields returns 400

## How this service works

Starts a new batch. You receive an `id` that you can use to track the progress of the batch as shown [here](/api-reference/batches/info). Note: Processing time is constant regardless of batch size

## Output

Returns a batch ID that can be used to track the status and progress of the batch scraping job as it processes the submitted URLs.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/olostep-api-olostep-batches-86c1dd73/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)