Web Query Language renamed to Keenable SELECT and opened to everyone

Startup Keenable renamed its MCP tool Web Query Language (WebQL) to Keenable SELECT and opened public access to read-only SQL queries against the live web on top of DuckDB, free until the end of September with a limit of two concurrent sessions.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-09-01Updated 2026-09-18

2026-09-01 Coding Anthropic

🛠 Web Query Language renamed to Keenable SELECT and opened to everyone

Startup Keenable opened public access to the MCP tool Keenable SELECT: read-only SQL SELECT against the live web on top of DuckDB with WEB_SEARCH, WEB_FETCH operators and semantic SEM_*. WHERE filters are executed before LLM operators — one query covers over 1,000 pages.

🌍 SELECT moves reading search results from the agent's expensive context into the query itself: instead of a loop where 'search returned 10 links — the agent reads each one,' a single MCP call searches 1,000+ pages, filters them with an exact WHERE without LLM costs — a step toward the 'web as a table' standard.

👤 Free until the end of September, limit — 2 concurrent sessions: ask at app.keenable.ai/select/start or connect https://select.keenable.ai/mcp with one command in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and get tables with sources instead of a wall of links.

Source 1: https://keenableai.github.io/select-showcase/ Source 2: https://app.keenable.ai/select/start

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