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title: "search1api"
description: "Search1API brings multi-engine search to AI agents, with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and specialized sources including GitHub, Reddit, X, arXiv, Wikipedia, YouTube, WeChat, and Bilibili. Choose sources that fit your"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/search1api
last-updated: 2026-11-01
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# search1api
Search1API brings multi-engine search to AI agents, with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and specialized sources including GitHub, Reddit, X, arXiv, Wikipedia, YouTube, WeChat, and Bilibili. Choose sources that fit your task and compare findings across them. Read full pages, search current news, discover site links, and explore GitHub and Hacker News trends. Browse selected results in interactive source cards, with expandable source lists and links to the original pages. Results include source URLs for citation.
- Slug: search1api
- Publisher: Search1API
- Repository: https://github.com/superagents-lab/search1api-mcp
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 0.9.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): research
- Skills: 0
- MCP servers: 1 (search1api)
- Stars: 173
- Repository created: 2024-11-26
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-31
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/search1api
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What search1api does, in the publisher's words

The official MCP server for Search1API: web search, news, page retrieval, sitemap discovery, and trending topics in one API.

- OAuth-aware clients can connect to the Remote MCP URL directly, then sign in and approve access in the browser.
- Existing integrations can continue to use an API key from the Search1API dashboard.
- Every MCP request, including tool discovery (initialize, tools/list), requires a credential. Unauthenticated requests draw the OAuth challenge, which is how clients trigger sign-in; pre-connect inspection is served by the static server card instead.

No installation required. Configure your MCP client with the remote URL. Use OAuth when the client supports it, or provide an API key.

Three methods are supported: use whichever your client supports:

- v0.6.1: Bug fix: MCP discovery (initialize, tools/list, resources/*, prompts/list, server/discover) requires a credential again.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superagents-lab/search1api-mcp/HEAD/README.md

## MCP servers

- search1api: transport: streamable-http; url: https://mcp.search1api.com/mcp

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.