Search Web / News with one API call

Read Web / News — web and news search — without building or maintaining a scraper. Search API with RSS fallback. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them. 2 credits a call.

The call

curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \
  "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/web/search?query=llm+agents"

This call costs 2 credits once you are on credits. A new account gets 5 free calls on any platform — verify an email and this command runs as-is.

What comes back

A real response from this endpoint, captured on 2026-07-25 and trimmed to one item:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "web",
  "data": {
    "total": 3,
    "items": [
      {
        "platform": "web",
        "type": "result",
        "title": "Reddit API Alternatives 2026 — Pricing & Limits Compared",
        "text": "Estimate your monthly Reddit API spend in seconds. Start fetching Reddit data — $0.10 in free credits. Six ways to fe...",
        "url": "https://www.redditapis.com/reddit-api-alternatives",
        "created_at": null,
        "extra": {
          "score": 0.9053309
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 2
}

Items from Web / News carry: extra, metrics, platform, text, title, type, url.

Why not just scrape it yourself

html.duckduckgo.com answers scripted GETs with a 202 bot challenge, and Google and Bing block curl outright. Every free HTML endpoint is a cat-and-mouse game with someone whose job is to stop you.

• Cost here: 2 credits a call, $0.006 at list.
• Last verified 2026-07-25: 941ms for this call.
• Coverage: Indexed public web results. Not a crawl — no page bodies, snippets only.

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