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Overview

Search executes web searches and automatically retrieves clean, structured content from the top results. Ask a question or enter keywords, and get back both the URLs and the full parsed content from each result. Think of it as Google search plus instant content extraction - all in one API call.

How it works

1

You provide a search query

Give Search any question or keywords you want to search for
2

Search executes on major search engines

  • Runs your query across search engines
  • Retrieves top matching results
  • Identifies most relevant pages
3

Extracts content from results

  • Visits each result page (in Deep Search mode)
  • Parses full page content automatically
  • Cleans and structures the text
  • Optional: Generates AI summary of findings
4

Returns structured results

Get search results with titles, descriptions, URLs, and full content ready to use

Research & Data Collection

Gather comprehensive information on any topic from multiple sources automatically

AI Agent Tasks

Get quick web answers with optional LLM-generated summaries for your applications

Content Monitoring

Track mentions, news, or updates about specific topics, brands, or keywords

Competitive Intelligence

Monitor what’s being said about competitors or track industry trends

Common use cases

Market research Search for product reviews, pricing information, or market trends across multiple sites. AI-powered answers Get instant web-based answers for chatbots or AI assistants with optional LLM summaries. Content aggregation Build news feeds or content databases by searching for specific topics automatically. Brand monitoring Track brand mentions, reviews, or discussions across the web.

Search vs. other tools

What you needUse this
Search web + extract content from resultsSearch
Data from popular sites (Amazon, Google, etc.)Public Agent - maintained by Nimble
Data from sites not in the galleryCustom Agent - create with natural language
Data from specific URLs (expert users)Extract
URLs with context for AI planningMap
Data from entire websiteCrawl

Two modes

Fast Mode (deep_search: false)
  • Discover URLs quickly without extracting content
  • 1 credit per search
  • Perfect for URL discovery or generating quick answers
Deep Search (default)
  • Full content extraction from search results
  • 1 credit + 1 credit per page extracted
  • Complete data for analysis and processing
  • All-in-one - Search and content extraction in a single request
  • Clean data - Parsed, structured content ready to use
  • Flexible - Choose between fast URL discovery or deep content extraction
  • AI-ready - Optional LLM summaries for instant answers

Example

Input: “best web scraping tools 2024” Output: Search results with full content
{
  "answer": "The top web scraping tools in 2024 include...",
  "total_results": 10,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Top 10 Web Scraping Tools for 2024",
      "description": "Comprehensive guide to the best web scraping tools...",
      "url": "https://example.com/article1",
      "content": "Full parsed content from the page...",
      "metadata": {
        "published_date": "2024-01-15"
      }
    },
    {
      "title": "Web Scraping Tools Comparison",
      "description": "Compare features, pricing, and performance...",
      "url": "https://example2.com/comparison",
      "content": "Full parsed content from the page..."
    }
  ]
}

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