Trends · Updated 2026-10-16
Web search and scraping tools for agents
In short: Search and live-web data are the most common jobs agents buy tools for. Compare MCP and x402 options by trust score. DartzDabz rechecks the 15 tools listed below every day with an automated trust and uptime check. The highest-scored today is stableenrich.dev search at 100/100.
Signal: Largest category in the directory
Why is this trend rising?
- Models need fresh facts
- Pay-per-call search fits bursty agent workloads
How can you act on this trend?
- Start with a high-trust MCP search server
- Fall back to x402 pay-per-query for occasional use
Which tools support this trend, and how do they compare?
| Score | Tool | Type | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | stableenrich.dev search Exa Search - Neural search across the web | x402 · $0.01 | stableenrich.dev |
| 100 | minifetch.com url-check Cheap robots.txt preflight check before you call the Minifetch /extract and /run/seo-page-audit endpoints: ret | x402 · $0.001 | minifetch.com |
| 100 | api.kadec0.xyz serp Web search results (SERP). Keyless web search returning ranked title, URL, and snippet for a query — with loca | x402 · $0.05 | api.kadec0.xyz |
| 100 | api.kadec0.xyz papers Academic and scientific paper search API. Search research papers and scholarly literature across arXiv, PubMed | x402 · $0.02 | api.kadec0.xyz |
| 100 | webtools402.176-109-107-191.sslip.io search Free-text web search for AI agents: ranked title/url/snippet results fused across multiple engines (Brave, Goo | x402 · $0.003 | webtools402.176-109-107-191.sslip.io |
| 100 | x402tap.com web-search Real-time web search (via Exa) — ranked results with title, URL, published date, author, and relevance score f | x402 · $0.015 | x402tap.com |
| 100 | reddit.apitoll.cloud search Reddit search scraper — keyword-search all of Reddit, or scope to one subreddit, for AI agents. Find posts mat | x402 · $0.03 | reddit.apitoll.cloud |
| 100 | squeezeos-api.onrender.com search Public X/Twitter search API for AI agents. Search recent public posts by keyword without requiring the caller | x402 · $0.0048 | squeezeos-api.onrender.com |
| 100 | x402.charliemorrison.dev extract Web-content reader: fetch any http(s) URL and return clean readable text, title/description/canonical, and out | x402 · $0.002 | x402.charliemorrison.dev |
| 100 | eltociear-skill-audit.hf.space audit Audit text for malicious AI-skill patterns. Requires `content`. Nothing to audit — crawling, or discovering th | x402 · $0.005 | eltociear-skill-audit.hf.space |
| 100 | pennyregwatch.com robots Check robots.txt before crawling or scraping a page. Decide whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Googlebot, or another c | x402 · $0.001 | pennyregwatch.com |
| 100 | x402-data-api.onrender.com scrape Fetch any public web page and return clean, readable Markdown with navigation, ads, and boilerplate stripped. | x402 · $0.001 | x402-data-api.onrender.com |
| 100 | jmt-x402-proxy.jmthomasofficial.workers.dev search Current web search results with titles, URLs, snippets, and source engine metadata. | x402 · $0.01 | jmt-x402-proxy.jmthomasofficial.workers.dev |
| 96 | search.cyberwarex.com search Web search that returns structured SERP results as JSON. Runs on a dedicated SearXNG instance aggregating mult | x402 · $0.003 | search.cyberwarex.com |
| 96 | 4yearcycle.com web-search General web search reselling the Tavily Search API: query the live web and get back ranked results (title, URL | x402 · $0.01 | 4yearcycle.com |
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