What this is

A simple GET /api/search endpoint. Send a query, get up to 10 results with title, URL, snippet, and freshness signals. No API key, no signup.

Results are normalized for direct consumption by an LLM — no HTML scraping, no boilerplate wrappers, no junk fields. Results include useful snippets and freshness signals when available, so agents can cite sources and reason about recency.

MCP users can install scouts-ai-mcp to expose the same API as a single web_search tool in their agent host.

What this is not

• Not a full web index. SCOUTS-AI provides a compact API for public web results; it does not crawl and rank the entire web itself.
• Not a guaranteed SLA. The service is provided on a best-effort basis. See the support page.
• Not a paid product. There is no pricing page, no enterprise tier, no contract. It is free while it lasts.
• Not a crawler. We do not build a derivative web index or store user-owned datasets.

Operating principles

• One public search endpoint with a stable JSON response shape.
• Short-lived caching for repeated searches to keep the service responsive.
• Limited operational records for debugging, abuse prevention and service analysis. See the privacy policy.
• No user accounts, no login, no cookies, no advertising and no model training on user queries.

Operator

SCOUTS-AI is operated by an individual maintainer, not a company. There is no legal entity behind the service at this time. If you need a paid contract, an SLA, or a data processing agreement, this service is not for you — please use a commercial search API.

For questions, complaints, takedown requests and abuse reports, see the support page.

License and source

The service code and public-facing pages are provided as-is. Source availability, if any, is announced on this page when it changes.