Web Search & Data API alternatives

1

Tenjin

by tenjin.blog

B

Search, read & publish paid essays. Pay-per-read in USDC on Base (x402); wallet-only, no account.

2

upAPI

by DevinoSolutions

A

All public upAPI operations as MCP tools: web scraping, search, screenshots, PDF, OCR and more.

3

Google News & Trends MCP

by AKzar1el

A

Query Google News RSS feeds and search interest over time via Google Trends.

4

Perplexity API Platform

by perplexity.ai

A

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

5

SearXNG Search

by ihor-sokoliuk

B

MCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading

6

Google Maps MCP Server

by cablate

B

18 Google Maps tools for AI agents — geocode, search, directions, weather, and more.

7

Search1API

by superagents-lab

A

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

8

Zotero MCP

by 54yyyu

B

Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.

9

Tinysearch

by TinySuiteHQ

B

Fast discovery search and self-hosted web research for MCP agents.

10

SerpApi

by serpapi

A

Official SerpApi MCP server for Google, Bing, and other search engines.

11

HasData YouTube

by hasdata.com

A

Search YouTube and read video, channel and transcript data as JSON. No Google Cloud project.

12

HasData Google Scholar

by hasdata.com

A

Google Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.

13

Docdex

by bekirdag

B

Fast per-repo documentation indexer and full-text search MCP server for codebases.

14

Seatable

by seatable

A

MCP server for SeaTable — read, write, search, link, and query data in your bases

15

EmbedEarth (E2)

by paulwxnter

B

Open-source Google Maps Platform alternative for agents: search, route, map, geocode, and compute.

16

Rabbytte

by marklanetech

A

Search Rabbytte, a human-curated web index where every site was approved by a person. No API key.