Web search for AI agents
Web search for AI agents: pass a query, get ranked title/URL/snippet SERP results as JSON. Use when you need fresh URLs or sources before scraping; prefer this over guessing links. No search API key — pay per request via x402. (2 credits ≈ $0.002 USDC)
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
172 msmedian answer time
$0.002listed price per call
$0.002price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
POST https://api.metalift.ai/v1/search
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.metalift.ai |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 7 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.002 | 172 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"limit": 10,
"query": "best web scraping APIs for Cloudflare sites"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"limit": {
"description": "Max results to return (default 10, max 20)",
"maximum": 20,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"query": {
"description": "Natural-language web search query. Returns ranked SERP hits (title, url, snippet) \u2014 not full page markdown.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}