# The API for AI agents to access the internet

Crustdata's web search API turns the web into structured, live data for AI agents. Use it to find relevant websites, evaluate candidate skills and experience, research founder backgrounds, and stay updated on company launches or product changes.

## Built for Developers and AI

###### Customizable search

You have control over the search results using filters such as the query, geolocation and sources.

###### Get structured content

###### Easy to integrate

## Why you need a WebSearch API

### The problem

Collecting search results manually or through headless browsers is troublesome - pages change, CAPTCHAs break, and proxies get blocked.

Our Web Search API gives you a clean JSON response of Google’s live SERP with ranking data, snippets, and metadata so you don’t have to maintain the infrastructure.

### Our solution

Sales teams want to see what messaging competitors are leading with and the market sentiment about a product but unable to do so from traditional B2B data providers who only have data points.

The Web Search API exposes this layer directly showing what the world sees when it searches.

Traditional databases may give you contact or company data and quantitative data but lack rich search insights like market perception or announcements like investor updates, founder interviews, podcast appearances, changelogs that can impact your outreach.

By delivering aggregated search snippets, featured results, and knowledge panels from the SERP, the API surfaces real-time public insights to enhance prospect profiles and personalize outreach.

Feeding timely search engine data into AI models or applications is challenging due to unstructured raw data and scraping limitations.

The API outputs clean, well-structured JSON data that integrates seamlessly into AI pipelines for analytics, insight extraction, or automation tasks.

###### Deep Research for AI Agents

## Give your agents the full context that standard B2B data APIs can’t provide

Combine our Data APIs that collect data from 10 verified sources that a typical Web Search API cannot access and our Web Search API to give your AI sales, recruiting and investment agents and products a lot more information and depth about a company or person.

### Prospect Intelligence

- Contextual Personalization
- Discover new leads & opportunities
- Discover talent pools
- Enrich candidate profiles
- Expand career page coverage
- Company & market intelligence
- Market sentiment & news tracking
- Detecting product launches & events

## How Customers are using Crustdata’s Web Search

Crustdata’s Web Search API provides users with title, snippets and links for a search query that they use for a variety of purposes.

### Product & Market Research

Use search results as the starting point to:

### Business & Investment Intelligence

Use search results as the starting point to:

### People Intelligence

Use Web Search to find information about individuals across the open web, such as:

### SEO & Search Performance Monitoring

Teams run recurring searches to:

### Competitive Intelligence & Advertising Analysis

By monitoring how competitors appear in search results, customers can:

### Content & Knowledge Management

Use Web Search as the discovery layer to:

## How it works

With a single request, your agent can query any keyword or phrase and get clean JSON in seconds.

#### Call

Make a call to /screener/web-search

#### Search

Enter your keyword, phrase or query

#### Fetch

We fetch & normalize live results

#### Receive

You get structured, ready-to-use JSON

## Example JSON Response

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "query": "open ai recent product launches",
  "sanitizedQuery": "open\_ai\_recent\_product\_launches",
  "engine": "google",
  "timestamp": 1764092871593,
  "pageTitle": "open ai recent product launches - Google Search",
  "results": [
    {
      "source": "web",
      "title": "OpenAI Newsroom | Product",
      "url": "https://openai.com/news/product-releases/",
      "snippet": "Our Research,LatestAdvancements, Safety, ChatGPT, Sora, API Platform, For Business, Company, Support, More, Terms & Policies",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "source": "web",
      "title": "OpenAI Research | Release",
      "url": "https://openai.com/research/index/release/",
      "snippet": "GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users. OpenAI introduces IndQA, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in Indian languages. Built with domain ...",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "source": "web",
      "title": "Open models by OpenAI",
      "url": "https://openai.com/open-models/",
      "snippet": "Open models by OpenAI ...Advanced open-weight reasoning modelsto customize for any use case and run anywhere. Download on Hugging Face (opens in a new window) ...",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "source": "web",
      "title": "OpenAI News",
      "url": "https://openai.com/news/",
      "snippet": "ProductNov 19, 2025. Load more.Product. View all. 251016 16x9 staticBackup ArtCard DZ v31 (1). Introducing ChatGPT Atlas, the browser with ChatGPT built in.",
      "position": 4
    }
  ]
}
```