Search API for AI agents
SCOUTS-AI exposes one public endpoint: GET /api/search.
It returns compact JSON search results with titles, URLs, snippets,
optional publish dates and cache/rate-limit signals.
Endpoint
GET https://scouts-ai.com/api/search?q={query}&lang=en&page=1
curl "https://scouts-ai.com/api/search?q=ai+agent+search+api&lang=en&page=1"
q— required query, 1–512 characters.lang— optional language hint, defaulten.page— optional page number, range1–10.
Best for
- AI agents that need web search before answering.
- LLM apps that need citation candidates.
- Answer engines that need fresh external context.
- GEO and SEO workflows that inspect search result snippets.
Response fields
title— result title.url— source URL for citation.content— short snippet.publishedAt— optional freshness signal.engine— optional upstream source label.
Agent contract
- Call the API only for user-requested searches.
- Use result URLs as citation candidates.
- Prefer results with
publishedAtfor recent topics. - Respect
429,Retry-AfterandX-RateLimit-*. - Do not crawl
/api/searchto build a derivative index.
Canonical schema: /v3/api-docs. Full docs: API documentation.