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Search1API MCP Server

Search1API gives Claude live access to the public web through five read-only tools:

• search: search the live web and get citable results with title, URL, and snippet. Pick the source (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, X, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, arXiv, Wikipedia, IMDb, WeChat, or Bilibili), limit results to a time range, and include or exclude specific sites. • news: find recent news coverage from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, or Hacker News. • crawl: read the full, clean text of a public page, from a search result or a link you paste. • sitemap: discover the links on a page or domain to see how a site is organized. • trending: see what is popular right now on GitHub or Hacker News.

Every result carries its canonical URL, so Claude can cite sources in research answers, briefings, and fact checks.

All tools only read public web content. Nothing is posted, changed, or deleted. You sign in with your Search1API account over OAuth, and searches use your Search1API credits.

Authorization required. Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 5 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under productivity, data-analytics, developer-tools. Published by s1.dev.

At a glance

Available in: claude, claude-api, claude-code, claude-desktop

Documentation: Open docs

Source code: Open repository

Package usage: 2,437 npm downloads in the last 30 days.

GitHub popularity: 174 stars on superagents-lab/search1api-mcp, recorded 2026-09-27.

Status

Pod connected to Search1API on 2026-09-27. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 965ms.

Why the tool list is not verified

Search1API refuses an anonymous tools/list, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

Tools

Its publisher lists 5 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Published as search1api-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search1api-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Search1API yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, contribute what you saw so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

Related servers

For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read, to search the canonical directory from your agent. Connect Pod to an agent.

See setup and API details

Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find Search1API, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Search1API",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Search1API' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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