# 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.

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.

###### AI SDR

## Prospect Intelligence

###### Web Search API

Search news articles, blogs, press releases, product announcements, detailed documentation, pricing and competitor websites for signals about company activities, launches, funding, or executive moves that may indicate a lead’s buying intent or need for a solution.

###### Data API

Use detailed firmographics and growth metrics to enrich accounts and categorize by intent.

###### AI SDR

## Contextual Personalization

###### Web Search API

Get context such as recent strategic shifts, new initiatives, or pain points mentioned publicly by prospects, enabling hyper-personalized outreach that references fresh and relevant events.​

###### Data API

Find people using filters and enrich their data such as work experience and education and some basic skills listed.

###### AI SDR

## Discover new leads & opportunities

###### Web Search API

Identify companies, startups, and decision-makers that might not yet be on traditional databases, especially smaller or newly founded prospects.

###### Data API

Find companies using 90+ firmographic, technographic and growth filters that exist on traditional databases and popular platforms.

###### AI Recruiter

## Discover talent pools

###### Web Search API

AI recruiters explore forums, project repositories, personal websites, and niche community sites to find candidates based on specialized skills and projects updated on relevant platforms. This search uncovers passive candidates with very specific skillsets.

###### Data API

Find candidates based on 60+ filters that have their profiles updated on mainstream platforms.

###### AI Recruiter

## Enrich candidate profiles

###### Web Search API

Retrieve additional public content like personal blogs, GitHub repositories, conference talks, publications and more offering a fuller picture of candidate skills, interests, and accomplishments than typical profiles provide.

###### Data API

Enrich a candidate with 90+ datapoints such as their work experience, education and some skills listed and the companies they worked at before.

###### AI Recruiter

## Personalized outreach

###### Web Search API

Use web results to cite a company’s newest roadmap post or incident write-up, then tie the role to that concrete need in the opener.

###### Data API

Write outreach based on the client input and data known about the prospect from their profiles.

###### AI Recruiter

## Expand career page coverage

###### Web Search API

Query Google with filters like "company name hiring" to find newly indexed roles that might exist only on the company website.

###### Data API

Monitor for new jobs posted by specific companies if published on verified platforms.

###### AI Investing

## Company & market intelligence

###### Web Search API

Collect market data from pitches, press releases, investor databases, and blogs automatically updating internal intelligence with revenue, valuation, investors and other important details.

###### Data API

Access 250+ datapoints about a company via our API or our bulk datasets such as funding, investors, headcount growth, web traffic data and more.

###### AI Investing

## Market sentiment & news tracking

###### Web Search API

Analyze SERPs around target companies, sectors, or keywords to detect shifts in market sentiment regarding a company, its competitors or an industry.

###### Data API

Analyze product reviews, employee reviews and social posts about a company.

###### AI Investing

## Detecting product launches & events

###### Web Search API

New SERP entries, such as press releases or announcements in snippets, give hints of product launches and partnerships.

###### Data API

Track social media posts for product launches or events such as partnerships based on semantic keyword tracking.

## 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

```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
        }
    ]
}
```