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Quickstart and pricing are clear, but llms.txt is missing

Docs give a working quickstart with code examples and an API reference; pricing lists Free/Developer/Pro with clear rates. llms.txt returns a 404, so there's no documentation index.

2 fixes to start with

Concrete changes, backed by what we found.

Docs

Return Markdown when clients request text/markdown.

Homepage returned text/html despite Markdown Accept header; no Markdown representation offered.

Docs

Add links to your product documentation and quickstart in /llms.txt.

https://dataville.com/llms.txt returns HTTP 404; no documentation index exists.

Linked from www.dataville.com/llms.txt

Recorded coding sessions

Same task, 3 models, no dataville.com account. Recorded 12 October 2026 on Pi.

3 recorded · 55s

55s · recorded

Session findings

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piv0.84.2
modelQwen 3.8 Maxcwd/sandbox/repo
Help me build a simple example using Dataville. Tell me how pricing works, and briefly tell me whether this product will be easy for you to manage. Let me know if you get blocked. If this product has no developer workflow you can act on, say so plainly and stop. Stay light: use the hosted product through its SDK or API. Do not start local service stacks or wait for long-running commands; if the quickstart requires either, say so plainly and stop.
Thinking…

I'm not familiar with Dataville, so let me search the repository for information about it.

ls -la /sandbox/repo && grep -ri "dataville" /sandbox/repo --include="*" -l | head
total 16
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 18 08:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 12 21:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 24 20:05 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  408 Sep 18 08:00 .gitignore
Thinking…

It's an empty repository. There's no information about Dataville locally. Let me check network access / documentation.

cd /sandbox/repo && git log --oneline | head; cat .gitignore
9ebf5fb Initial workspace
9ebf5fb Initial workspace
# Keep generated and vendored files out of source diffs.

# Logs / OS cruft
*.log
.DS_Store

# JavaScript / TypeScript
node_modules/
.next/
dist/
build/
coverage/

# Python
.venv/
venv/
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
.pytest_cache/
*.egg-info/

# Rust
target/

# Go / PHP / Ruby vendored deps
vendor/
.bundle/

# Java / Kotlin / Scala
.gradle/

# .NET
bin/
obj/

# Elixir
_build/
deps/

# Dart / Flutter
.dart_tool/
Thinking…

There are no local references to "Dataville." Let me check whether there's network access to investigate Dataville. Let me quickly try a search (with a timeout).

timeout 10 curl -sI https://pypi.org/simple/ >/dev/null && echo "network OK" || echo "no network"
network OK
network OK
Thinking…

Let me look for "Dataville" — search for packages on pypi/npm and check whether they exist.

timeout 15 curl -s "https://pypi.org/simple/dataville/" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"; timeout 15 curl -s "https://registry.npmjs.org/dataville" -w "\n%{http_code}\n" | tail -3
404
404
{"error":"Not found"}
404
Thinking…

Dataville doesn't exist on PyPI or npm. It's probably a fictional/unknown product. Following the instructions, "if this product has no developer workflow that I can handle, state that clearly and stop." I should state that plainly and stop. Also, I can't accurately answer about the pricing. I'll also do a quick web check (via the registry, GitHub search, etc.) to confirm its existence.

timeout 15 curl -s "https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=dataville&per_page=5" | head -40
{
{
  "total_count": 21,
  "incomplete_results": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": 1337550936,
      "node_id": "R_kgDOT7loWA",
      "name": "dataville-mcp",
      "full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-mcp",
      "private": false,
      "owner": {
        "login": "datavilleorg",
        "id": 240027991,
        "node_id": "O_kgDODk6JVw",
        "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/240027991?v=4",
        "gravatar_id": "",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/datavilleorg",
        "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/followers",
        "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/following{/other_user}",
        "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/gists{/gist_id}",
        "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
        "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/subscriptions",
        "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/orgs",
        "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/repos",
        "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/events{/privacy}",
        "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/datavilleorg/received_events",
        "type": "Organization",
        "user_view_type": "public",
        "site_admin": false
      },
      "html_url": "https://github.com/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp",
      "description": "MCP server for Dataville — query Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, US Census, OpenAlex, PyPI and more from Claude and other MCP clients.",
      "fork": false,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp",
      "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp/forks",
      "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp/keys{/key_id}",
      "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp/collaborators{/collaborator}",
      "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp/teams",
      "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/datavilleorg/dataville-mcp/hooks",
Thinking…

Dataville exists — it's a data API product by "datavilleorg". Let me check out the organization, the MCP repository, and the Dataville website/SDK.

timeout 15 curl -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/datavilleorg/repos" | grep -E '"full_name"|"description"|"homepage"|"language"'
"full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-wikimedia",
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-wikimedia",
    "description": "Build with Wikimedia data through Dataville: fresh, source-linked Wikipedia articles via one REST API and MCP server. Includes a company knowledge-base tracker example.",
    "homepage": "https://dataville.com",
    "language": "TypeScript",
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-news-sentiment-tracker",
    "description": "Political news sentiment tracker — NLP scoring across 13M articles from 90+ outlets (2015–2020)",
    "homepage": "https://app.dataville.com/use-cases/sentiment-tracker",
    "language": "TypeScript",
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-sec-edgar",
    "description": "Build with SEC EDGAR through Dataville: authoritative 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings and XBRL financials via one REST API and MCP server. Includes a filing analyzer example.",
    "homepage": "https://dataville.com",
    "language": "TypeScript",
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/dataville-mcp",
    "description": "MCP server for Dataville — query Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, US Census, OpenAlex, PyPI and more from Claude and other MCP clients.",
    "homepage": "https://dataville.com",
    "language": "TypeScript",
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/company-intelligence-agent",
    "description": "Company research agent combining Wikimedia context with authoritative SEC EDGAR filings and financials — every claim source-linked. Built on the Dataville API and MCP.",
    "homepage": "https://dataville.com",
    "language": null,
    "full_name": "datavilleorg/.github",
    "description": "Dataville organization profile",
    "homepage": "https://dataville.com",
    "language": null,
Thinking…

Dataville is a data API platform (Wikipedia, SEC EDGAR, etc.) located at dataville.com. The user is asking for a simple example using Dataville, wants to know how the pricing structure works, and wants to know whether it's easy to manage. Stay lightweight: use the hosted product via its SDK or API. Don't spin up a local service stack.

Let's fetch the dataville.com documentation / pricing page.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://dataville.com" -L | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | grep -v '^\s*$' | head -60
DatavilleWebFont.load({ google: { families: ["Geist:300,400,500,600,700","IBM Plex Mono:400,500,600","IBM Plex Sans:400,500,600,700","Libre Bodoni:300,400,5
DatavilleWebFont.load({  google: {    families: ["Geist:300,400,500,600,700","IBM Plex Mono:400,500,600","IBM Plex Sans:400,500,600,700","Libre Bodoni:300,400,500,600,700","Source Serif 4:400,500,600,700"]  }});!function(o,c){var n=c.documentElement,t=" w-mod-";n.className+=t+"js",("ontouchstart"in o||o.DocumentTouch&&c instanceof DocumentTouch)&&(n.className+=t+"touch")}(window,document);
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "WebPage",
  "name": "Dataville",
  "description": "Dataville is where the best publishers and media come together with the most innovative developers to build a better internet. The days of just scraping by are over. Whether you create content or create with code, Dataville is for you.",
  "url": "/",
  "about": {
    "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
    "name": "Dataville",
    "description": "A platform connecting publishers and developers to build a better internet with structured, licensed content",
    "applicationCategory": "DeveloperApplication",
    "offers": [
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "name": "Free Plan",
        "description": "For tinkering and small projects",
        "price": "0",
        "priceCurrency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "name": "Developer",
        "description": "For serious builders"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "name": "Enterprise",
        "description": "For large teams that scale"
      }
    ],
    "featureList": [
      "1000 requests a day",
      "Open datasets like Wikipedia",
      "Email support",
      "Higher rate limits",
      "Premium datasets",
      "Priority support",
      "Org-wide access",
      "Custom terms and datasets",
      "Dedicated support"
    ]
  }
}
(function(w,i,g){w[g]=w[g]||[];if(typeof w[g].push=='function')w[g].push.apply(w[g],Array.isArray(i)?i:[i]);})(window,['G-5KDV6YRCSP'],'google_tags_first_party');window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}gtag('set', 'developer_id.dZGVlNj', true);gtag('set', 'developer_id.dYWYxNW', true);gtag('js', new Date());gtag('config', 'G-5KDV6YRCSP');
DatavilleSourcesPricingDocsFor publishersSign inSign upStructured content for AI agentsFresh. Trusted. Structured.Built for AI agents.One API call returns realtime content with citation, ready for your RAG pipeline the moment it is published.Get a free API key →Read the docsGET/wikiarxivedgarcensusnewspypiopenalexstackexchangegutenbergfooddatapaperswithcode/200 OK312 msRun request$ curl https://api.dataville.com/arxiv/attention+is+all+you+need{  &quot;status&quot;: &quot;success&quot;,  &quot;data&quot;: {    &quot;title&quot;: &quot;Attention Is All You Need&quot;,    &quot;source&quot;: &quot;arxiv&quot;,    &quot;last_updated&quot;: &quot;2017-06-12T00:00:00Z&quot;,    &quot;metadata&quot;: {      &quot;arxiv_id&quot;: &quot;1706.03762&quot;,      &quot;pdf_url&quot;: &quot;https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762&quot;    }  }}Why DatavilleStop maintaining scrapers. Build with trusted data instead.&lt;/&gt;For developersJust swap one line of code and get structured, licensed content from sources you already trust.Join Dataville¶For publishersControl licensing, pricing, and attribution. We handle the rest, from delivery to analytics, so you can focus on creating great content.Contact usSourcesOur trusted content partnerswikiWikipediaSix million articles showing off the best of human knowledge, neatly organized and ready for your RAG pipelines and search indexes.censusfooddatagutenbergarxivpaperswithcodePublic data and researchCensus statistics, USDA nutrition data, the Gutenberg library, and live research from arXiv and Papers with Code, so your agents cite what is current.edgarFinancial filingsEvery 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K in SEC EDGAR, searchable by company, ticker, or keyword. Straight from the source, clean and normalized.Join the neighborhoodWe are welcoming every kind of creator and every kind of content. It could not be easier to get started.Publish with DatavillePricingPlansEvery plan includes every public dataset. Pick the monthly credit pool that fits, and top up any time with credits that never expire.Free$0/month$5 in monthly Dataville credits✓  Every public dataset✓  One shared credit pool✓  Usage dashboardGet started freeDeveloper$29/month$29 in monthly Dataville credits✓  Every public dataset✓  One shared credit pool✓  Usage dashboardPro$99/month$99 in monthly Dataville credits✓  Every public dataset✓  One shared credit pool✓  Usage dashboard✓  Discounted per-request pricingWhether you create content or create with code, Dataville is for you.Join Dataville →© 2026 Dataville. All rights reserved.DocsSupportPrivacyTerms
(function () {
  var API = 'https://api.dataville.com';
  var SOURCES = ['wiki', 'arxiv', 'edgar', 'census', 'news', 'pypi', 'openalex', 'stackexchange', 'gutenberg', 'fooddata', 'paperswithcode'];
  var root = document.getElementById('dv-demo');
  if (!root) return;
  var input = document.getElementById('dv-demo-input');
  var run = document.getElementById('dv-demo-run');
  var select = document.getElementById('dv-demo-source');
  var status = document.getElementById('dv-demo-status');
  var time = document.getElementById('dv-demo-time');
  var req = document.getElementById('dv-demo-request');
  var res = document.getElementById('dv-demo-response');
  var busy = false;
  if (select && select.options.length === 0) {

timeout 20 curl -s "https://dataville.com/pricing" -L -o /tmp/pricing.html -w "%{http_code}\n"; sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' /tmp/pricing.html | grep -v '^\s*$' | head -80
404
404
    404 - Page not found
        404
            Page not found
            The page you are looking for doesn&#x27;t exist or has been moved.
Thinking…

The pricing information has already been obtained from the homepage. Next, to check the developer workflow, I'll fetch the docs — the docs site. Let me check https://dataville.com/docs or docs.dataville.com.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://dataville.com/docs" -L -o /tmp/docs.html -w "%{http_code}\n"; sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' /tmp/docs.html | grep -v '^\s*$' | head -100
404
404
    404 - Page not found
        404
            Page not found
            The page you are looking for doesn&#x27;t exist or has been moved.
Thinking…

The documentation links to the footer — let's find the href of the docs link.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://dataville.com" -L | grep -oE 'href="[^"]*"' | sort -u | head -40
href="#"
href="#"
href="#pricing"
href="#publishers"
href="#sources"
href="/"
href="https://app.dataville.com/privacy"
href="https://app.dataville.com/signin"
href="https://app.dataville.com/signup"
href="https://app.dataville.com/tos"
href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com"
href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69c2bdec2337adec732a9cc7/69c4258d872bb2c63957f97b_dataville32.png"
href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69c2bdec2337adec732a9cc7/69c42604e630f5d02a7337d5_dataville256.png"
href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69c2bdec2337adec732a9cc7/css/dataville-118eb0.webflow.shared.530059a91.css"
href="https://docs.dataville.com"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Serif+4:ital,opsz,wght@0,8..60,400;0,8..60,500;0,8..60,600;0,8..60,700;1,8..60,500;1,8..60,600&family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap"
href="https://fonts.gstatic.com"
href="mailto:support@dataville.com"
Thinking…

Dataville is a real hosted product, equipped with a REST API at api.dataville.com and documentation at docs.dataville.com. Let me check the docs for quickstart, SDK, authentication, and whether API calls work without a key.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://docs.dataville.com" -L -o /tmp/dvdocs.html -w "%{http_code}\n"; sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' /tmp/dvdocs.html | grep -v '^\s*$' | head -80
200
200
.base-ui-disable-scrollbar{scrollbar-width:none}.base-ui-disable-scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar{display:none}Introduction - Dataville Docs!function(){var b="";
function a(p){if(p==null)return"/";p=""+p;if(""===p)return"/";return"/"===p.charAt(0)?p:"/"+p}
function u(p){if(p==null)return p;p=""+p;if(!p||p.charAt(p.length-1)==="/")return p.slice(0,-1);return p}
function i(p){if(p==null)return p;p=""+p;if(6<=p.length&&p.substring(p.length-6)==="/index")return p.substring(0,p.length-6);if("index"===p)return"";return p}
var p=(location.pathname||"").split("?")[0].split("#")[0]||"";
if(b)if(p===b)p="";else if(0===p.indexOf(b+"/"))p=p.substring(b.length);
p=a(p);p=u(p);p=i(p);p=""===p||"index"===p?"/":a(p);
document.documentElement.setAttribute("data-current-path",p);
}();(() => {
  const isIOS =
    /iP(hone|ad|od)/.test(navigator.userAgent) ||
    (/Macintosh/.test(navigator.userAgent) && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1);
  if (!isIOS) return;
  const apply = () => {
    for (const meta of document.querySelectorAll('meta[name="viewport"]')) {
      const content = meta.getAttribute('content') || '';
      if (!content.includes('maximum-scale')) {
        meta.setAttribute('content', content + ', maximum-scale=1');
      }
    }
  };
  apply();
  new MutationObserver(apply).observe(document.head, {
    childList: true,
    subtree: true,
    attributes: true,
    attributeFilter: ['content'],
  });
})();!function(){
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read();document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",read);
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var w=window;w.mintlify=w.mintlify||{};
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){"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebSite","name":"Dataville Docs","creator":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Mintlify","url":"https://mintlify.com"}}((a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h)=>{let i=document.documentElement,j=["light","dark"];function k(b){var c;(Array.isArray(a)?a:[a]).forEach(a=>{let c="class"===a,d=c&&f?e.map(a=>f[a]||a):e;c?(i.classList.remove(...d),i.classList.add(f&&f[b]?f[b]:b)):i.setAttribute(a,b)}),c=b,h&&j.includes(c)&&(i.style.colorScheme=c)}if(d)k(d);else try{let a=localStorage.getItem(b)||c,d=g&&"system"===a?window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches?"dark":"light":a;k(d)}catch(a){}})("class","isDarkMode","light","light",["dark","light","true","false","system"],{"true":"dark","false":"light","dark":"dark","light":"light"},true,false)(function(){try{var f="light";var v=f||localStorage.getItem("isDarkMode");if(v==='true')v='dark';else if(v==='false')v='light';if(v!=='light'&&v!=='dark'&&v!=='system')v="light";document.documentElement.setAttribute("data-theme-preference",v)}catch(e){}})();Documentation IndexFetch the complete documentation index at: /llms.txtUse this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.:root{--banner-height:0px!important}(function i(a,b,c,d,e){try{let f,g,h=[];try{h=window.location.pathname.split("/").filter(a=>""!==a&&"global"!==a).slice(0,2)}catch{h=[]}let i=h.find(a=>c.includes(a)),j=[];for(let c of(i?j.push(i):j.push(b),j.push("global"),j)){if(!c)continue;let b=a[c];if(b?.content){f=b.content,g=c;break}}if(!f)return void document.documentElement.setAttribute(d,"hidden");let k=!0,l=0;for(;l<localStorage.length;){let a=localStorage.key(l);if(l++,!a?.endsWith(e))continue;let b=localStorage.getItem(a);if(b&&b===f){k=!1;break}g&&(a.startsWith(`lang:${g}_`)||!a.startsWith("lang:"))&&(localStorage.removeItem(a),l--)}document.documentElement.setAttribute(d,k?"visible":"hidden")}catch(a){console.error(a),document.documentElement.setAttribute(d,"hidden")}})(
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timeout 20 curl -s "https://api.dataville.com/wiki/python" | head -c 800; echo; timeout 20 curl -s "https://api.dataville.com/wiki/python" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
{"status":"success","account_state":"anonymous","data":{"id":"wiki_en_python","title":"Python","body":"Python\n\nLook up Python or python in Wiktionary, the fre
{"status":"success","account_state":"anonymous","data":{"id":"wiki_en_python","title":"Python","body":"Python\n\nLook up Python or python in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.\n\nPython may refer to:\n\nSnakes\n\nPythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia\n\nPython (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia\n\nPython (mythology), a mythical serpent\n\nArts and entertainment\n\nPython (film), a 2000 horror film by Richard Clabaugh\n\nMonty Python or the Pythons, a British comedy group\n\nPython (Monty) Pictures, a company owned by the troupe's surviving members\n\nComputing\n\nPython (programming language), a widely used high-level programming language\n\nPython, a native code compiler for CMU Common Lisp\n\nPython, the internal project name f
200
Thinking…

The API works anonymously. To check the SDK / quickstart / authentication workflow, let me fetch the documentation index at docs.dataville.com/llms.txt.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://docs.dataville.com/llms.txt" | head -60
# Dataville Docs
# Dataville Docs

> One REST API to search Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, the US Census and more — with bulk CSV/Parquet export, SQL queries over every dataset, and a remote MCP server.

- [Introduction](https://docs.dataville.com/introduction.md): One API for external data in AI applications, from Claude or from code.
- [Quickstart: Claude](https://docs.dataville.com/quickstart-claude.md): Add Dataville to Claude and ask for a company's most recent SEC filing.
- [Quickstart: API](https://docs.dataville.com/quickstart.md): Create an API key and make your first Dataville request in a few minutes.
- [Connect an AI tool](https://docs.dataville.com/ai-tools.md): Connect Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code to the hosted MCP server.
- [Who Dataville is for](https://docs.dataville.com/who-dataville-is-for.md): A database of vetted sources for fintech, insurance, consulting, and SaaS teams.
- [Data sources](https://docs.dataville.com/data-sources.md): Find the source you need, search it, and check its license.
- [Response format](https://docs.dataville.com/response-format.md): The JSON shape every data source returns.
- [Query with SQL](https://docs.dataville.com/query-with-sql.md): Run read-only SQL across exportable sources, in Data Studio or over the API.
- [Connected data](https://docs.dataville.com/connected-data.md): Bring a Google Sheet into Dataville and query it alongside the public sources.
- [Plans and credits](https://docs.dataville.com/plans-and-credits.md): Check what a request costs and how far your monthly credits go.
- [Guides](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/overview.md): Step-by-step guides to underwriting, market research, and sales operations with Dataville.
- [Check business applications against SEC filings in Claude](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/underwrite-from-claude.md): Upload a batch of applications to Claude and get back a CSV file that checks each one against SEC filings.
- [Monitor SEC filings for a watchlist](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/filings-watchlist.md): Check each company you follow for a new SEC filing and send what's new to your team.
- [Enrich an onboarding record with a company's filing and background](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/onboarding-enrichment.md): Store a business's filing and a background article with its application at signup.
- [Profile a client's competitors from Claude and Data Studio](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/competitor-scan.md): Ask Claude for each competitor's filing, then build a comparison table in Data Studio.
- [Build a sector dataset in DuckDB from filings and your own notes](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/sector-dataset-duckdb.md): Join a sector's recent SEC filings with your notes on each company in DuckDB, and save them as a CSV file.
- [Tag CRM accounts by industry in Claude](https://docs.dataville.com/guides/tag-accounts-by-industry.md): Upload a CRM export to Claude and get back a CSV file with an industry for every account.
- [Overview](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/overview.md): One REST API to search, download, and query every source in Dataville's catalog.
- [Create an API key](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/authentication.md): Dataville's API authenticates using an API key.
- [Usage limits](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/usage-limits.md): Rate limits for the Dataville API.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/errors.md): How the Dataville API reports errors and what to do about each one.
- [MCP server](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/mcp-server.md): Dataville's hosted MCP server is documented under Connect an AI tool.
- [Search a data source](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/data-sources/search-a-data-source.md): Search any supported data source by keyword and return the single most relevant result. This is the primary endpoint of the API.
- [Fetch an article by pasting its URL](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/data-sources/fetch-an-article-by-pasting-its-url.md): Paste a Wikipedia URL directly onto the API host and get the article back. The path is the URL with its double slash collapsed to one, so `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing` becomes:
- [List available exports](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/list-available-exports.md): Catalogue of every exportable source and its download URLs. No auth required.
- [Download one source as CSV or Parquet](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-one-source-as-csv-or-parquet.md): Stream a whole dataset as CSV or Parquet. Requires authentication and is credit-metered; a failed or aborted download is refunded.
- [Download every dataset as a DuckDB database](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-duckdb-database.md): A single `.db` file containing a table per source, ready to open in DuckDB.
- [Download every dataset as a zip of CSVs](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-zip-of-csvs.md)
- [Download every dataset as a zip of Parquet files](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-zip-of-parquet-files.md)
- [Run a SQL SELECT across the datasets](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/export-and-sql/run-a-sql-select-across-the-datasets.md): Execute a read-only SQL query over the datasets in DuckDB. Only `SELECT` statements are accepted; anything else is rejected by the validator.
- [Run SQL against one connected sheet](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/connected-sheets/run-sql-against-one-connected-sheet.md): A SELECT-only sandbox scoped to a single dataset. Reference the sheet as `sheet_data` in the SQL. Accepts an API key as well as a Clerk session, so connected data is queryable programmatically.
- [Keyword-search a connected sheet](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/connected-sheets/keyword-search-a-connected-sheet.md): Search every column of a connected sheet without writing SQL. Accepts an API key.
- [Get request usage for the caller](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/usage/get-request-usage-for-the-caller.md): Request counts and limits for the caller — authenticated by token, or by IP when no token is sent. Your credit balance is reported on every metered response in `X-Credits-Remaining` and on the dashboard's **Billing** page.
- [Are you an AI agent?](https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/ai-agents.md): Direct links to the OpenAPI spec and other machine-readable forms of these docs.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](/openapi/openapi.yaml)


This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.
Thinking…

The user is asking to build a simple example using Dataville, along with an explanation of pricing and an assessment of its ease of use for management. Let me skim the quickstart, plans-and-credits, and search endpoint docs, and then build a small sample script in /sandbox/repo.

Fetching quickstart.md and plans-and-credits.md.

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> ## Documentation Index
> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dataville.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart: API

> Create an API key and make your first Dataville request in a few minutes.

Getting started with Dataville takes just a few minutes. This guide will walk you through getting an API key and making your first request to Dataville's [search a data source](/api-reference/data-sources/search-a-data-source) endpoint.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create an account">
    Sign up for a Dataville account. It's free to get started.

    <Card title="Create your Dataville account" icon="user-plus" href="https://app.dataville.com/signup">
      Sign-up for free.
    </Card>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Get your API key">
    An API key is automatically generated for you when you create a Dataville account. You can find it on the [API keys page](https://app.dataville.com/api-keys). Each account has one active key at a time.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dataville/zDlwOKSC3fbhiIB6/images/api-keys-replace.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=zDlwOKSC3fbhiIB6&q=85&s=840571e72c10bdc573e4dafff12c7e39" alt="The API Keys page in the Dataville dashboard. A Create API Key panel sits above a table of keys showing name, key prefix, status, last used, created date, and Reveal, Copy, and Revoke actions, with the Copy action highlighted." width="3016" height="890" data-path="images/api-keys-replace.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Make a request">
    Search a source by putting its name and your keywords in the path, and send your key in the `Authorization` header. This request asks the `arxiv` source for a paper by its arXiv id:

    <CodeGroup>
      ```bash cURL theme={null}
      curl "https://api.dataville.com/arxiv/1706.03762" \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAVILLE_API_KEY"
      ```

      ```javascript JavaScript (fetch) theme={null}
      const response = await fetch(
        "https://api.dataville.com/arxiv/1706.03762",
        { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.DATAVILLE_API_KEY}` } },
      );
      const result = await response.json();
      ```

      ```python Python (requests) theme={null}
      import os, requests

      response = requests.get(
          "https://api.dataville.com/arxiv/1706.03762",
          headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['DATAVILLE_API_KEY']}"},
      )
      result = response.json()
      ```
    </CodeGroup>

    To learn more about searching data sources, including every parameter and the sources you can pass, see the [search a data source](/api-reference/data-sources/search-a-data-source) API reference.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Read the response">
    Dataville's API will return the most relevant result from your selected data source. Every source returns data in the same format, so the code you write to read it works for all of them.

    ```json theme={null}
    {
      "status": "success",
      "account_state": "authenticated",
      "data": {
        "id": "arxiv_1706.03762",
        "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
        "body": "Authors: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones … (+3 more)\nPublished: 2017-06-12\nCategories: cs.CL, cs.LG\n\nThe dominant sequence transduction models...",
        "source": "arxiv",
        "metadata": {
          "arxiv_id": "1706.03762",
          "abs_url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762v7",
          "categories": ["cs.CL", "cs.LG"]
        }
      },
      "usage": {
        "credits_total": 5,
        "credits_remaining": 4.995,
        "credits_used": 0.005,
        "request_cost": 0.005
      }
    }
    ```

    The `data.body` field contains the entire result's body and can be passed straight into models. Structured metadata specific to each source is accessible through `data.metadata`.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

Now you've queried Dataville's API, you're ready to integrate it into your workflows.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Data sources" icon="database" href="/data-sources">
    Find the source that has what you need.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect an AI tool" icon="plug" href="/ai-tools">
    Search every source from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code.

timeout 20 curl -s "https://docs.dataville.com/plans-and-credits.md" | head -80; echo ---; timeout 20 curl -s "https://docs.dataville.com/api-reference/authentication.md" | head -40
> ## Documentation Index
> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dataville.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Plans and credits

> Check what a request costs and how far your monthly credits go.

Every Dataville plan includes a monthly grant of credits, in USD. Requests deduct their cost from that balance, and the balance resets to your plan's grant at the start of each billing period. Credits you don't use in a period do not carry over.

## Choosing a plan

Every plan includes every data source, exports, SQL queries, connected sheets, and the MCP server. Pro has lower per-request rates.

| Plan | Price | Monthly credits |
| - | - | - |
| Free | \$0 per month | \$5 |
| Developer | \$29 per month | \$29 |
| Pro | \$99 per month | \$99 |

You can change or cancel your plan at any time on the [Billing](https://app.dataville.com/billing) page. Changes take effect immediately: your balance is set to the new plan's monthly grant and a new billing period starts. Unused time on a paid plan is credited toward your next invoice. Canceling moves you to the Free plan.

## Paying for requests

Each request deducts a per-request rate from your balance. The rate depends on the source and your plan: Wikipedia is a premium source and costs more than the rest of the catalog, which shares a single standard rate. You can see the rate for every source on the [Data Library](https://app.dataville.com/datasets) page.

| Source | Free | Developer | Pro |
| - | - | - | - |
| Wikipedia | \$0.0250 | \$0.0150 | \$0.0125 |
| All other sources | \$0.0050 | \$0.0050 | \$0.0040 |

What counts as one request depends on the endpoint:

* A data lookup, a search from the MCP server, and an export download each count as one request at the source's rate. See [Search a data source](/api-reference/data-sources/search-a-data-source) and [Download one source as CSV or Parquet](/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-one-source-as-csv-or-parquet). Fetching a Wikipedia article by URL is charged at the Wikipedia rate. See [Fetch an article by pasting its URL](/api-reference/data-sources/fetch-an-article-by-pasting-its-url).
* Whole-catalog downloads ([`dataville.db`](/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-duckdb-database), [`dataville.csv.zip`](/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-zip-of-csvs), and [`dataville.parquet.zip`](/api-reference/export-and-sql/download-every-dataset-as-a-zip-of-parquet-files)) count as one standard-rate request.
* [SQL queries](/api-reference/export-and-sql/run-a-sql-select-across-the-datasets) through `POST /api/v1/query` are charged one standard-rate request per row returned, whatever source the rows come from. A query that returns 1,000 rows costs the same as 1,000 lookups, so use `LIMIT`.
* Connected-sheet [queries](/api-reference/connected-sheets/run-sql-against-one-connected-sheet) and [searches](/api-reference/connected-sheets/keyword-search-a-connected-sheet) are not charged.

You are only charged for successful responses that return data. Errors are not charged, and a download that fails before it completes is refunded.

## Checking your balance

The [Billing](https://app.dataville.com/billing) page shows your remaining credit and when it resets, your top-off balance, and usage broken down by source.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dataville/b7S_8OGrogHnrxzO/images/billing.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=b7S_8OGrogHnrxzO&q=85&s=2f73a823030e0c2bbe78064e193f711f" alt="The Billing page in the Dataville dashboard: the current plan, a credits bar, a top-off balance, usage by source, and an auto-reload toggle." width="2682" height="1450" data-path="images/billing.png" />
</Frame>

You can also check your balance from the API. Every charged response includes `X-Credit-Cost` and `X-Credits-Remaining` headers, in USD, and a `usage` object in the body.

## Buying more credits

You can buy credits on the [Billing](https://app.dataville.com/billing) page in any amount from \$5 to \$500. Top-off credits never expire. You keep them if you change plans, and Dataville uses them only once your monthly credits run out.

### Auto-reload

Turn on **Auto-reload** to buy the same top-off automatically whenever your balance drops below an amount you set. Auto-reload needs a saved card and runs at most once an hour.

## Running out of credits

When your balance cannot cover a request's full cost, the API returns **402** with `error: insufficient_credit` and charges nothing. The body includes your remaining balance and the cost of the request. See [Insufficient credit](/api-reference/errors#insufficient-credit-402).

To keep going, buy credits, upgrade your plan, or wait for your monthly reset.


This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.---
> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dataville.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create an API key

> Dataville's API authenticates using an API key.

The Dataville API authenticates requests with an API key. Send the key in the `Authorization` header on every request.

Requests without a key are limited to data lookups, at 50 requests per 24 hours per IP address. This allowance is for evaluating the API before you create an account and is not compatible with production usage.

## Managing API keys

You can create and manage your API key on the [API Keys page](https://app.dataville.com/api-keys) of the dashboard. Keys start with `dataville_`.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dataville/b7S_8OGrogHnrxzO/images/api-keys.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=b7S_8OGrogHnrxzO&q=85&s=1c81bad830abffcea83ad5f4cafe6352" alt="The API Keys page in the Dataville dashboard: a Replace Key button above a table of keys showing name, key prefix, status, last used, created date, and Reveal, Copy, and Revoke actions." width="2975" height="1048" data-path="images/api-keys.png" />
</Frame>

Each Dataville account can have one active API key. If you generate a new API key, your previous key will be deactivated.

## Sending the key

Send the key in the `Authorization` header using the `Bearer` scheme:

```
Authorization: Bearer dataville_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
```

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://api.dataville.com/wiki/Apollo%2011" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAVILLE_API_KEY"
  ```

  ```javascript JavaScript (fetch) theme={null}
  const response = await fetch("https://api.dataville.com/wiki/Apollo%2011", {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.DATAVILLE_API_KEY}`,
Thinking…

Dataville is a real, fully hosted REST API — perfect for this request. It has a free tier, with anonymous lookups possible (50 requests per 24 hours per IP). No SDK required. Can build a simple sample script inside the repo. Let's write a small sample (Python, standard library only) that runs a query against the API. It'll work anonymously without an API key, and also support DATAVILLE_API_KEY if one is present. After that, run it to verify.

Dataville is a hosted data API (Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, Census, etc.) at api.dataville.com — no local stack needed, it runs with just a plain REST call, and it even works anonymously for evaluation purposes. Now I'll create a minimal sample.

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"""Minimal Dataville example — stdlib only, no local services.
 
Dataville is a hosted REST API (https://api.dataville.com) that returns
structured, source-linked content from Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, US
Census, and more. One endpoint shape for every source:
 
    GET https://api.dataville.com/{source}/{query}
 
Auth: send `Authorization: Bearer dataville_...` (get a key free at
https://app.dataville.com/api-keys). Without a key, data lookups are
allowed anonymously at 50 requests / 24h / IP.
 
Usage:
    python dataville_example.py                         # anonymous
    DATAVILLE_API_KEY=dataville_xxx python dataville_example.py
"""
 
import json
import os
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request
 
API = "https://api.dataville.com"
 
 
def search(source: str, query: str) -> dict:
    """Ask one Dataville source for its most relevant result."""
    url = f"{API}/{source}/{urllib.parse.quote(query)}"
    headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}
    key = os.environ.get("DATAVILLE_API_KEY")
    if key:
        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {key}"
 
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
        body = json.loads(resp.read())
        # Charged responses report spend in these headers:
        cost = resp.headers.get("X-Credit-Cost")
        remaining = resp.headers.get("X-Credits-Remaining")
        if cost is not None:
            print(f"[credits] cost=${cost} remaining=${remaining}")
    return body
 
 
def main() -> None:
    lookups = [
        ("wiki", "Monty Python"),
        ("arxiv", "attention is all you need"),
        ("edgar", "AAPL 10-K"),
    ]
    for source, query in lookups:
        result = search(source, query)
        data = result.get("data") or {}
        print(f"\n=== {source}: {query!r} ===")
        print(f"title : {data.get('title')}")
        print(f"id    : {data.get('id')}")
        meta = data.get("metadata") or {}
        link = (
            meta.get("abs_url")
            or meta.get("pdf_url")
            or meta.get("url")
            or meta.get("source_url")
        )
        if link:
            print(f"link  : {link}")
        body = (data.get("body") or "").strip()
        print(f"body  : {body[:200]}...")
        usage = result.get("usage")
        if usage:
            print(f"usage : {usage}")
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
Thinking…

Please execute it. It will consume anonymous credits — but anonymous requests aren't charged (only data searches are possible without a key; charges only apply to authenticated users? Probably billed against the plan). Anonymous searches work as we confirmed. Let's run it.

cd /sandbox/repo && timeout 90 python3 dataville_example.py
=== wiki: 'Monty Python' ===

=== wiki: 'Monty Python' ===
title : Monty Python
id    : enwiki_18942
link  : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
body  : Monty Python

British surreal comedy group

This article is about the comedy group. For their TV show frequently called Monty Python, see Monty Python's Flying Circus.

"Pythonesque" redirects here. F...
usage : {'requests_remaining': 47, 'request_limit': 50}

=== arxiv: 'attention is all you need' ===
title : Do You Even Need Attention? A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
id    : arxiv_2105.02723
link  : http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02723v1
body  : Authors: Luke Melas-Kyriazi
Published: 2021-05-06
Categories: cs.CV

The strong performance of vision transformers on image classification and other vision tasks is often attributed to the design of t...
usage : {'requests_remaining': 49, 'request_limit': 50}

=== edgar: 'AAPL 10-K' ===
title : Apple Inc. — 10-Q (2026-07-31)
id    : edgar_0000320193-26-000020
body  : Company: Apple Inc.
Form: 10-Q
Description: 10-Q
Filed: 2026-07-31
Period: 2026-06-27
Industry: Electronic Computers (SIC 3571)
Incorporated: CA
Tickers: AAPL
Exchanges: Nasdaq
Category: Large acceler...
usage : {'requests_remaining': 48, 'request_limit': 50}
Thinking…

It works. Done. Summarize the pricing and manageability assessment.

Done — not blocked. I built and ran a working example: /sandbox/repo/dataville_example.py (stdlib-only Python, ~60 lines). It queries Dataville's hosted REST API across three sources (Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR) using the same endpoint shape GET https://api.dataville.com/{source}/{query}, and all three lookups returned real, source-linked data. No local services, no long-running commands — it works anonymously for evaluation (50 lookups/24h/IP), and picks up DATAVILLE_API_KEY automatically if you set one.

How pricing works (from docs.dataville.com/plans-and-credits):

  • Plans: Free ($0/mo, $5 credits), Developer ($29/mo, $29 credits), Pro ($99/mo, $99 credits). Every plan includes every dataset, exports, SQL, and the MCP server. Monthly credits reset each period and don't roll over.
  • Per-request rates: Wikipedia is premium — $0.025 (Free) / $0.015 (Developer) / $0.0125 (Pro). All other sources: $0.005 (Free/Developer) / $0.004 (Pro). One lookup, one MCP search, or one export download = one request. SQL queries cost one standard-rate request per row returned (use LIMIT). Connected-sheet queries are free.
  • Billing hygiene: only successful responses are charged; errors are free and failed downloads are refunded. Balance is reported on every response (X-Credits-Remaining header + usage object) and on the dashboard. Running out returns HTTP 402 and charges nothing. Top-off credits ($5–$500) never expire, with optional auto-reload.

Will this be easy for me to manage? Yes, very:

  • One REST API, one auth scheme (Bearer key), one uniform response format across all sources — trivial to script.
  • Docs are AI-friendly (/llms.txt index, .md pages, OpenAPI spec), so I can self-serve on any endpoint.
  • The only friction points: the API key requires signing up at app.dataville.com (a human step — I can't create accounts), and one-active-key-per-account means rotating a key invalidates the old one immediately. Both are minor.

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