agentutility(7)$ man web-search
/web-search
PRICE / CALL
$0.006
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
webprobeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
web-search — ranked google results for a query: title, url, snippet, domain, and a recency filter, via decodo google search
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/web-search
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Ranked Google results for a query: title, URL, snippet, domain, and a recency filter, via Decodo Google Search. Built for agents that need source discovery before they read or synthesize; for fetched page text or cited answers use answer-web or scrape-to-json. Use it as a web search API, SERP API, Google search API, or real-time search endpoint for agents, at a lower per-call price than the common hosted search APIs.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Search query or research question. 1-500 chars. | required |
| num_results | number | Number of results to return. Default 10, max 20. | optional |
| include_text | boolean | Whether to include fetched page text when the upstream supports it. | optional |
| recency | string | Optional freshness filter. Default 'any'. enum: day · week · month · year · any | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | — |
| results | string | — |
| source | string | — |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/web-search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster> # Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... # Then call the web-search tool from your MCP-aware agent.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- web-probewebsearchweb-search
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- webprobe
- price
- $0.006 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in webprobe
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| mentions | Monitors public X mentions of a brand, handle, URL, ticker, or phrase by searching recent posts and returning matches with author and met… | $0.006 |
| arxiv-bibtex | Turns an arXiv paper into a BibTeX entry: pulls title, authors, year, abstract, and DOI from the arXiv API and generates a properly-forma… | $0.005 |
| brand-name-score | Scores a candidate brand or startup name on quality and risk. | $0.005 |
| company-name-score | Scores the quality of a company name before you commit to domain, handle, trademark, and launch work. | $0.005 |
| crypto-headlines | Searches recent bitcoin, ethereum, and DeFi headlines via GDELT with a GNews fallback when configured, returning headline URLs, domains,… | $0.005 |
| crypto-news | Fetches recent cryptocurrency news headlines from GDELT with a GNews fallback when configured, filtered by crypto topic or caller query,… | $0.005 |
| disposable-email-check | Detects disposable and throwaway email addresses before they get through your signup form. | $0.005 |
| domain-availability | Checks whether a domain is registered and returns registrar, registration date, expiry date, days_until_expiry, and current EPP status flags. | $0.005 |
SEE ALSO