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Search APIs

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Search APIs return web results to software instead of a person. An agent can use them to find social pages, posts and profiles with ordinary search queries, such as a site:linkedin.com search.

Brave Search API and Parallel run on their own indexes. Serper and SerpAPI return Google results. SerpAPI and the Perplexity API are each in court with a platform over how they collect its data.

Search APIs

  • Brave Search API

    Search API on Brave's own independent web index (plans: Search, Answers, Spellcheck, Autosuggest). An agent can query it directly; Brave results are not Google's index.

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  • DataForSEO SERP API

    Pay-per-SERP API for Google, Bing, YouTube, and other engines, with Standard, Priority, and Live execution modes and structured results.

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  • Exa

    Neural web search API with people and company indexes. Its people search can return profiles together with recent professional posts, giving agents searchable third-party social content.

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  • Parallel

    Agent web search, extraction and monitoring APIs on Parallel's own index. The Search API page demonstrates Reddit and YouTube results and supports domain controls.

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  • Perplexity API

    Search API (raw ranked results) and Agent API (web_search, people_search, fetch_url tools) from Perplexity. search_domain_filter allows or denies up to 20 domains; no social-specific mode documented.

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  • SearchAPI.io

    Real-time SERP API family from SearchApi, LLC: Google, Bing, plus YouTube Search, TikTok Search/Profile/Video, Instagram Profile, Facebook Business Page, ad libraries and LinkedIn Jobs APIs. Agent use: indirect social search with JSON.

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  • SerpAPI

    Real-time search-engine scraping API returning parsed results from Google and other engines. Queries can use normal search operators such as site scope.

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  • Serper

    Low-cost Google Search API returning JSON. An agent can send site:linkedin.com/in or site:linkedin.com/posts queries as ordinary Google queries to reach indexed LinkedIn pages.

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  • xAI API x_search

    Server-side tool in the Grok Responses API that does keyword, semantic and user search plus thread fetch on X, with handle and date filters and optional image/video understanding. An agent gets X answers with citations in one call.

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