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Search1API is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. 891 installs a week from npm. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 31 Oct 2026.

Web search, agentic search, news, page retrieval, sitemaps, and trending topics through Search1API.

Installs per day peak 93 · avg 45 · +7% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
24 ms
Response time
average over 24h
891
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Search1API every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add search1api --transport http https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.search1api]
url = "https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "url": "https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "search1api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

crawl
crawl
Extract the readable title and full text from a public URL supplied by the user or returned by search.
news
news
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.
search
search
Search the live public web when the user needs current information, sources, or research. Returns citable results with id, title, URL, and text. Pass a result URL to crawl to retrieve the full page.
sitemap
sitemap
Discover related public links from a page or domain when the user wants to explore a site's structure or available pages.
trending
trending
List currently trending repositories or stories from GitHub or Hacker News when the user asks what is popular now.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp streamable-http sign-in 24 ms 6 min ago

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Search1API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Search1API do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: crawl, news, search, sitemap, trending. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Search1API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 24 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Search1API?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Search1API?
No API key is involved. Search1API answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Search1API?
It answers our handshake in 24 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Search1API?
The npm package search1api-mcp was installed 891 times in the last week. Week over week that is +7%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Search1API open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 173 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.search1api.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.