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Web Search API for AI Agents and LLMs

Give your agents a live web-search tool. Crawlora returns Google, Bing, and Brave search results and news as structured JSON over documented REST endpoints and hosted MCP tools — so models can search the web at run time.

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Crawlora platform

Structured public web data

01

API-first

Documented endpoints and Playground testing.

02

JSON-first

Normalized records instead of raw HTML parsing.

03

Infrastructure managed

Proxy routing, browser rendering, retries, and scaling controls.

04

Responsible boundaries

Public web data workflows with transparent failure handling.

The problem

LLMs are frozen at their training cutoff — agents need live search

Models cannot answer about anything after their training cutoff, and most search APIs are built for browsers, not agents: results arrive as HTML or sit behind quotas and per-engine SDKs. Agent builders end up wiring a different tool per engine and parsing markup. Crawlora gives agents one documented web-search tool — Google, Bing, and Brave results plus news as normalized JSON — callable over REST or hosted MCP tools.

Infrastructure

Proxy routing, browser execution, retries, and usage controls are operational work.

Normalization

Raw pages must become stable records before products and data teams can use them.

Product fit

Use-case landing pages should map directly to buyer workflows and internal data models.

Responsible use

Structured public web data workflows still need clear legal, privacy, and platform boundaries.

What you can collect

Structured data categories

Example fields may include search result positions, titles, URLs, snippets, and news metadata across supported engines.

result position and rank
result titles
result URLs
result snippets
engine and query context
country and language
news headlines and sources
published or collected timestamps
related queries where supported
normalized JSON across engines

Relevant Crawlora APIs

Platform-specific endpoints for this workflow

Start from the platform page or endpoint docs, then test the same route in Playground before production integration.

Google Search API

Structured Google search results for retrieval and grounding.

Open

Bing Search API

Bing web search results as normalized JSON.

Open

Brave Search API

Independent-index Brave search results for diversity.

Open

Google search endpoint

Query Google web results with country and language inputs.

Open

Google News endpoint

Fetch news headlines and sources for fresh, time-sensitive context.

Open

Search intent

Web Search API for AI Agents workflows by search intent

Match the page content to the practical jobs buyers search for, then open the relevant Crawlora APIs behind each workflow.

A live web-search tool for LLMs and agents

Register Crawlora's search endpoints as a tool your model can call when it needs current information. The agent issues a query, Crawlora returns ranked results as JSON, and your model reasons over titles, snippets, and URLs — then optionally fetches deeper data from Crawlora's other documented endpoints. It is callable from any framework over REST, or natively over hosted MCP tools.

  • Works with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents, n8n, and any HTTP client
  • One tool spans Google, Bing, and Brave instead of three SDKs
  • Hosted MCP tools expose search to MCP-compatible clients like Claude or Cursor

What it returns today (and what it does not)

Crawlora returns structured search results and news — positions, titles, URLs, snippets, and metadata — not cleaned page content or a generated answer. If your pipeline needs full article text, pair search with Crawlora's documented platform endpoints (for example YouTube transcripts or Reddit threads) or your own fetch-and-clean step. This keeps the search layer fast, predictable, and token-light.

  • Returns ranked SERP JSON across engines, plus news
  • Not a markdown or clean-content extractor, and not an answer engine
  • Compose with platform endpoints for deeper, source-specific data

Example workflow

From target definition to product output

Crawlora keeps the scraping execution layer behind documented APIs so your product can focus on storage, analysis, alerts, and user workflows.

  1. 01

    Register search as a tool

    Add the Crawlora search endpoint or MCP tool to your agent's toolset.

  2. 02

    Let the model query

    The agent calls search with a query, country, and language when it needs live information.

  3. 03

    Reason over JSON

    Your model reads ranked titles, snippets, and URLs instead of parsing HTML.

  4. 04

    Fetch deeper if needed

    Follow up with documented platform endpoints for transcripts, threads, or product data.

  5. 05

    Answer with citations

    Keep result URLs so the agent's answer can cite its sources.

API example

Illustrative agent web-search request

Illustrative example using the documented Google search route. Agents should use the current Docs catalog for supported inputs and fields.

Request

Illustrative example
GET https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google-search/search?keyword=latest%20web%20scraping%20regulations&country=us
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

Illustrative response

Illustrative example
{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Example result",
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "snippet": "Clean, ranked field for the agent to reason over"
    }
  ]
}

What you can build

Products, dashboards, and workflows this data can power

These are practical workflow patterns for SaaS products, data teams, AI agents, agencies, growth teams, and internal intelligence tools.

Research agent

Let an agent search the live web, compare sources, and summarize with citations.

RAG freshness layer

Add live search to a RAG app so answers include current information.

Multi-engine search tool

Query Google, Bing, and Brave behind one endpoint for result diversity.

News-aware assistant

Surface fresh headlines and sources for time-sensitive questions.

MCP search tool

Expose web search to MCP-compatible clients like Claude or Cursor.

Workflow automation

Trigger searches from n8n, Make, or Zapier and route results downstream.

Build or buy

Why not build it yourself?

Custom scrapers can work for prototypes. Production web data workflows need infrastructure, monitoring, stable output, and clear failure behavior.

DIY approachCrawlora approach
Wire a separate SDK and parser per search engineCall one documented endpoint across Google, Bing, and Brave
Handle quotas, keys, and HTML parsing yourselfReceive normalized JSON behind one API key
Build a custom agent tool per sourceUse hosted MCP tools for supported endpoints
Spend tokens cleaning markupReason over token-light ranked results

Infrastructure

Explore the managed execution layer

Crawlora combines platform-specific APIs with managed proxy routing, browser-backed rendering, retries, rate limits, usage tracking, and scaling controls.

Web Scraping API

Open

Proxy Routing

Open

Browser Rendering

Open

Browser Cluster

Open

Anti-bot Resilience

Open

Challenge Handling

Open

Retry & Fallback

Open

Usage & Billing

Open

Scalable Scraping API

Open

Responsible use

Use structured public web data responsibly

Use web search results responsibly and within applicable laws, search-engine terms, and third-party rights. Crawlora returns structured public search results, not cleaned page content or an authoritative answer, and results may be delayed, incomplete, or affected by upstream changes. Read Crawlora terms.

Related use cases

More structured web data workflows

Cross-link practical workflows that often share the same data infrastructure and product buyers.

Web Data for RAG

Open

AI Agent Web Data

Open

AI Web Scraping

Open

SERP Monitoring

Open

FAQ

Web Search API for AI Agents FAQ

Answers for developers and product teams evaluating Crawlora for this workflow.

What is a web search API for AI agents?+

It is an API that lets an LLM or agent search the live web as a tool and get results as structured JSON. Crawlora returns Google, Bing, and Brave results plus news that a model can reason over, over REST or hosted MCP tools.

How is this different from web data for RAG?+

This page is about live web search as an agent tool — issuing a query and getting ranked results at run time. Web Data for RAG is about collecting and embedding sources into a retrieval index. They compose well: search for freshness, RAG for grounding.

Does it return clean article text or an answer?+

No. Crawlora returns structured search results and news metadata, not cleaned page content or a generated answer. Pair search with documented platform endpoints or your own fetch step when you need full text.

Which search engines are supported?+

Google, Bing, and Brave search endpoints are documented, plus news endpoints. Using more than one engine improves result diversity and resilience.

Can my AI agent call this over MCP?+

Yes. Crawlora exposes a hosted MCP endpoint so MCP-compatible clients such as Claude or Cursor can use web search as a tool, in addition to the REST API.

Does it work with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or n8n?+

Yes. The REST endpoints work with any HTTP client, and there are integration guides for LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents, n8n, Make, and Zapier.

How fresh are the results?+

Search and news endpoints return current public results at request time, subject to upstream availability. Coverage and freshness can vary by query and engine.

How is this billed?+

Crawlora uses credit-based pricing with API-key usage tracking. Estimate recurring agent search usage on the pricing page.

Start building with structured public web data

Browse Crawlora APIs, test a request in Playground, and move from scraping infrastructure work to production data workflows.

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