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Powerful APIs for search and web scraping built specifically for AI applications
Who are we?
We're a team of AI researchers and developers passionate about helping you build the next generation of AI assistants. Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations with accurate, unbiased, and factual information through intelligent search and content extraction.
What is WebSearchAPI.ai?
Building an AI agent that leverages realtime online information is not a simple task. Scraping doesn't scale and requires expertise to refine, and many search engine APIs don't provide explicit information to queries but simply potential related articles.
WebSearchAPI.ai provides two powerful APIs optimized for LLMs: Web Search API and Web Scraper API. We focus on delivering efficient, quick and persistent results for AI developers and autonomous AI agents. We take care of all the burden of searching, scraping, filtering and extracting the most relevant information from online sources. All in a single API call!
To try the API in action, you can use our interactive API Playground.
Why choose WebSearchAPI.ai?
WebSearchAPI.ai combines the power and relevance of Google search with optimizations specifically designed for AI applications, delivering superior results where other solutions fall short.
How does the Search API work?
Traditional search APIs retrieve search results based on a user query. However, the results are sometimes irrelevant to the goal of the search, and return simple URLs and snippets of content which are not always relevant.
The WebSearchAPI.ai Search API aggregates multiple high-quality sources per a single API call, and uses proprietary AI to score, filter and rank the top most relevant sources and content to your task, query or goal. In addition, WebSearchAPI.ai allows developers to add custom fields such as context and limit response tokens to enable the optimal search experience for LLMs.
WebSearchAPI.ai can also help your AI agent make better decisions by including a short answer for cross-agent communication.
Our APIs
Web Search API
The Web Search API combines Google's powerful search capabilities with AI-optimized content extraction:
- Execute Google-powered search queries programmatically
- Automatically crawl and extract full content from search results
- Receive AI-generated answers to your queries
- Get clean, structured markdown ready for LLM consumption
- Filter out ads, navigation menus, and other noise
- Customize search with regional, language, and domain filters
Perfect for AI agents that need to search the web and get factual, up-to-date information. Learn more →
Web Scraper API
The Web Scraper API offers advanced web scraping with full control over content extraction:
- Extract content from any URL with browser rendering support
- Use CSS selectors to target specific content
- Inject custom JavaScript before scraping
- Generate AI-powered alt text for images
- Customize markdown output formatting
- Extract links and images with summaries
- Support for Shadow DOM, iframes, and complex SPAs
Perfect for building knowledge bases, RAG applications, and intelligent content processing pipelines. Learn more →
Getting started
Sign up for WebSearchAPI.ai to get your API key. You get 1,000 free API Credits every month. No credit card required.
Head to our Web Search API Playground to familiarize yourself with our API.
To get started with WebSearchAPI.ai's APIs and SDKs using code, head to our Quickstart Guide and follow the steps.