ChatGPT Plugin

Search1API

Live web research

Brand: Search1API

Category: Developer Tools
Primary Subcategory: Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents

Integration details

Description

Search1API helps users research current information by searching the public web and news, reading full pages, discovering links on a site, and exploring trending GitHub repositories and Hacker News stories. It returns structured results with canonical source URLs for citation.

Integration type: Plugin
Verification status: Not applicable
Platform: ChatGPT
Category: Developer Tools
Primary Subcategory: Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents
Secondary Subcategories: None listed
Brand: Search1API
Access: Account required
First tracked: 2026-10-13
Tool count: 7
Market: US

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Primary Subcategory

Competing in ChatGPT Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents

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Listed in alphabetical order

Primary Subcategory

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Tools

7 tools agents can invoke

Describe what you are looking for in natural language when you do not know which source to search. Search1API picks up to five engines (web, Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, X, arXiv, Wikipedia, and more), infers a time window from phrases such as "this week", and returns at most 10 relevant results ranked by relevance. Costs 5 credits; use search when you already know the engine.
ask
Discover related public links from a page or domain when the user wants to explore a site's structure or available pages.
sitemap
List currently trending repositories or stories from GitHub or Hacker News when the user asks what is popular now.
trending
Extract the readable title and full text from a public URL supplied by the user or returned by search.
crawl
Present already retrieved source results as source cards when the host supports UI, with a complete readable text list otherwise. Use when the user wants to browse sources or a visual list helps the task. Pass existing results in the desired order; never invent source URLs or factual titles. Does not search, crawl, fetch URLs, verify sources, or consume search credits. Do not call for intermediate research results or when a text answer is sufficient.
render_results
Search current news when the user asks about recent events, announcements, or coverage. Returns citable article results with title, URL, snippet, and optional extracted text.
news
Search the live public web when the user needs current information, sources, or research. Returns citable results with id, title, URL, and text. Each result includes a URL that can be read in full.
search

FAQs

Search1API ChatGPT Plugin FAQ

How the directory, categories and Discoverability Score work.

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How do I improve Search1API's ChatGPT Plugin discoverability?

The levers are the listing surface agents actually read: names, descriptions, keywords, tool metadata, and registry health. Which lever matters depends on where discovery breaks, which is what continuous measurement shows.

What are Search1API alternatives on ChatGPT?

As of 2026-11-02, Search1API competes with Agent Help Network, Alpenmarketing Link-Check, Answer Images, Aya Web Extract, CaptureGPT, Chat Search, Context.dev, DataBlue and 30 more in ChatGPT Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents, ranked by public Discoverability Score.

Where is this profile measured?

This profile uses the geography attached to the latest public registry snapshot: US. Locale tags are intentionally omitted.