Web Search Research x402 offerings

CRW — Search the web and optionally scrape the hits in one call. Pass `query`; optional `limit` (1-20, default 5), `tbs` (freshness: qdr:h|d|w|m|y), `sources` (web|news|images), `lang`, and `scrapeOptions` ({ formats, onlyMainContent }) to return full page content per hit instead of snippets.

CRW — Scrape a single URL to clean markdown/HTML/JSON (Firecrawl-compatible). Pass `url`; optional `formats` (markdown|html|rawHtml|plainText|links|json|summary|screenshot, default markdown), `onlyMainContent` (default true), `renderJs` (null = auto-detect), `waitFor` (ms), `stealth` (anti-bot browser), `country` (2-letter proxy egress), `jsonSchema` (structured output). Sync — returns the scraped content directly. Cheapest full-featured scrape rung.

Entity-resolved, de-duped company/industry news with sentiment, AI summary, and tagged company mentions (~80% of noise filtered). Scope by { company: 'https://canva.com' } (website URL), { industry } (taxonomy code from akta:industry-search), or free-text { query }. Optional filters (additive): `sentiment_list` (positive/negative/neutral), `type_list` (tag CODES, e.g. CM01=Equity Fund-Raising, WT01=Strategic Hiring, SD01=Product Launches, SD02=Partnerships — codes appear on returned articles' `…

Apify — Amazon product detail pages by ASIN or URL.

Bright Data Web Unlocker — Fetch a page that actively BLOCKS scrapers: Cloudflare/DataDome/PerimeterX walls, CAPTCHA challenges, aggressive bot detection, geo-fenced content. Bright Data rotates residential exit IPs, solves challenges and retries internally, then returns the final page as `{ raw: "<html>…" }`. Pass `url`; optional `country` (2-letter geo), `render` (execute JS first), `format` ("raw" page, default, or "json" for their envelope with status/headers). This is the FIRST escalation …

CRW — Discover the URLs of a website without scraping content (sitemap + crawl fallback). Pass `url`; optional `maxDepth`, `useSitemap` (default true), `timeout` (seconds, default 120). Recon step before targeted crw/scrape or crw/crawl.

Linkup — AI web search returning a cited answer or ranked results. Pass `q`; optional `outputType` (sourcedAnswer default — synthesized answer with sources | searchResults — raw ranked hits | structured — pass `structuredOutputSchema` JSON-schema string), `fromDate`/`toDate` (ISO), `includeDomains`/`excludeDomains`, `includeImages`, `includeInlineCitations`. Standard depth — one-pass retrieval. For hard multi-hop questions escalate to linkup/deep-search (5¢).

CRW — Structured extraction over up to 10 URLs using an LLM. Pass `urls` plus `prompt` (natural language) and/or `schema` (JSON schema); optional `basis: true` for per-field source evidence. Usually returns the extracted objects INLINE and already complete: `{ results: [{ url, status: completed, data }] }` — read `data` directly, do not poll. The extracted object may be nested one level (`data.data`) on multi-URL calls; unwrap defensively. If a call instead returns `{ id, status: processing }`,…

Brave — keyword web search over Brave's own independent index (not Google/Bing). Pass `q`; optional `count` (1-20), `offset` (pagination), `country` (2-letter), `search_lang`, `freshness` (pd|pw|pm|p…

Firecrawl — Extract structured data from URLs using a schema.

CRW — Structured extraction over up to 10 URLs using an LLM. Pass `urls` plus `prompt` (natural language) and/or `schema` (JSON schema); optional `basis: true` for per-field source evidence. Usually …

Brave — news-only search over the Brave index: recent articles with source, age, and breaking flags. Pass `q`; optional `count` (1-50), `country`, `search_lang`, `freshness` (pd|pw|pm|py), `safesearc…

Entity-resolved, de-duped company/industry news with sentiment, AI summary, and tagged company mentions (~80% of noise filtered). Scope by { company: 'https://canva.com' } (website URL), { industry }…

Exa — retrieve content for URLs or document IDs via our API key. Charges 0.1¢ per (url or id) × content field requested.

Tavily — AI-native web search tuned for RAG: ranked results with relevance scores, optional LLM answer synthesis. Pass `query`; optional `topic` (general|news|finance), `max_results` (1-20), `include…

Bright Data Web Unlocker — Fetch a page that actively BLOCKS scrapers: Cloudflare/DataDome/PerimeterX walls, CAPTCHA challenges, aggressive bot detection, geo-fenced content. Bright Data rotates resi…

Browserbase — Create a headless browser session via x402. Charges 0.2¢ per minute of estimatedMinutes (minimum 5). Returns sessionId + connectUrl.

CRW — Search the web and optionally scrape the hits in one call. Pass `query`; optional `limit` (1-20, default 5), `tbs` (freshness: qdr:h|d|w|m|y), `sources` (web|news|images), `lang`, and `scrapeOp…

CRW — Scrape a single URL to clean markdown/HTML/JSON (Firecrawl-compatible). Pass `url`; optional `formats` (markdown|html|rawHtml|plainText|links|json|summary|screenshot, default markdown), `onlyMa…

Linkup — DEEP agentic search: iterative multi-query retrieval for hard or multi-hop questions where one-pass search misses. Same params as linkup/search (`q` + outputType/dates/domain filters). Slowe…

ScrapingAnt — Scrape a URL and return LLM-ready markdown (rendered in headless Chrome, then converted). Pass `url`; optional browser/wait_for_selector/proxy_country/timeout knobs. Returns `{ url, mar…

Exa — semantic web search via our API key. numResults up to 100. For people/lead discovery set category:"people" with an open ICP query.

Serper — real Google web results: organic ranks with snippets, knowledge graph, people-also-ask, related searches. Pass `q`; optional `num` (1-100 results), `page`, `gl` (2-letter country), `hl` (lan…

Tavily — extract clean page content (JS handled) from up to 5 URLs you already have, in one 1¢ call. Pass `urls` (array, ≤5); optional `format` (markdown default | text). For bigger batches make mult…