Keenable SELECT: Search the Web with SQL Queries
Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
Keenable SELECT is an MCP server that lets you run SQL SELECT statements over live web data. Instead of an agent reading pages one by one, a single query can search thousands of pages, filter with exact WHERE clauses at no LLM cost, extract fields with semantic operators, and group results. The showcase includes research reports and the full trajectory behind each, built by a research agent that iterates on its own SQL queries and a report agent that generates HTML reports from the result sets.
A traditional web search gives an agent ten links. The agent must then read each page and build the answer from expensive tokens. SELECT moves this work into the query.
- simonw
Assuming this is accurate, the diagram showing movement between different AI labs is pretty interesting: https://select.keenable.ai/r/frontier-ai-researcher-moves-si...
Suggests that when Meta AI started throwing around those multi-million-dollar paychecks they got 12 from OpenAI, 5 from DeepMind, 2 from Thinking Machines Lab and none from Anthropic.
(There's a small print disclaimer about accuracy at the bottom: "This report was generated automatically by Keenable SELECT at a user's request, from publicly available web sources linked herein. Keenable does not review, verify, or endorse its contents and makes no representation as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness; AI-based extraction may contain errors.")
- embedding-shape
"One user, inigyou, out-commented all of Hacker News in August 2026 — 3,344 comments, 4.4× the runner-up" - https://select.keenable.ai/artifacts/MarIEMVi6t63M4qovQ2cVw Prompt was "What user on Hacker News made most comments in August, 2026?". Seemed pretty fast, used reasonable sources, results makes sense, pretty good job done by the people building it :)
Some others:
- "What website/domain was the most popular on the frontpage of Hacker News ..." - https://select.keenable.ai/artifacts/SITl-y08FZxJLnif_c_fSw (seems reasonable at a glance)
- "How has the sentiment of PG shifted on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026?" - https://select.keenable.ai/artifacts/pmW5bxWt4t1CgniaF8kBeg (less good, found too little data, moved ahead with an analysis anyways)
I wish there was a way to abort/cancel/edit the requests, as I am, like many of you, still human, and therefore do mistakes sometimes, but I do realize them, although sometimes a bit too late.
- spullara
Love seeing people experiment with stuff like YQL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Query_Language) taking advantage of all the AI stuff definitely increases the power.