Web search tool for LLMs: results as JSON

Price

$0.0009 / search

Results per run

10 default · up to 50

Billing

Only results delivered are billed. Failed runs pay no call fee.

Hand it to your AI agent

Copy this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It tells the agent where the docs are and how to use your API key.

Use the Lovely Router data tool "Web search" (id `web-search`, Web) to get data for me. It returns JSON.

- Docs (read first): https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/run.md and https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/api/tools.md
- Input fields and price: GET https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/web-search (public, no key needed). Price: $0.0009 / search.
- Run: POST https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/web-search/run with a body like `{"input":{"query":"electric car prices site:reuters.com OR site:bloomberg.com after:2026","count":10},"max_results":1}`. A 200 has the finished run with `items`; a 202 means it is still running, so poll the `poll` path until `status` is `succeeded`, `failed`, `timed_out` or `stopped`.
- Only delivered results are billed. Keep max_results small on the first run, check the output, then scale up (up to 1 per run).
- If you support MCP, you can instead connect the server https://lovelyrouter.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, same key; https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/mcp.md) and use suggest_tools, get_tool and run_tool with tool "web-search".
- Auth: read my API key from the LOVELY_API_KEY environment variable and send it as `Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY`. Never print or commit the key. If it is not set, ask me to create one at https://lovelyrouter.com/app/keys.
- Billing is prepaid: every call is charged to my balance, so test with a small request before running anything large.
- Every docs page is plain Markdown; the full index is https://lovelyrouter.com/llms.txt.

My task: <describe the data you need, e.g. which places, profiles, keywords or URLs, and the output format>

Input

querystringrequired

What to search for, 1–128 characters. Operators: site:example.com (several: site:a.com OR site:b.com), -site:example.com, "exact phrase", -word, -"exact phrase", lang:en (or lang:zh,en), after:2026-01-01, before:2026-06 (years or dates).

countinteger

Number of results, 1–50 (the price is per search, not per result).

need_contentboolean

Also return each page's text (longer response). Usually the summary is enough.

questionstring

Optional: the user's original question (≤ 128 characters), to rank results better.

Try it

Input (JSON)

Costs at most $0.0009

Call it from code

How runs, polling and billing work →

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/web-search/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"query":"electric car prices site:reuters.com OR site:bloomberg.com after:2026","count":10},"max_results":1}'

# MCP (agents): suggest_tools → get_tool → run_tool
run_tool({
  "tool": "web-search",
  "input": {"query":"electric car prices site:reuters.com OR site:bloomberg.com after:2026","count":10},
  "max_results": 1
})

What it costs

Runs	Cost
100	$0.09
1,000	$0.90
10,000	$9.00

Prepaid, no subscription. Fewer results than requested cost less. Pricing

Used for

AI coding agents Research agents Chinese social media data

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Web search API cost?

$0.0009 / search. 1,000 runs cost $0.90. There is no subscription: you pay from a prepaid balance.

What does one run return?

One run is one billed search. Its input decides how much it returns; the input fields are listed on this page.

Can an AI agent use this tool?

Yes. Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to the Lovely Router MCP server: the agent finds the tool with suggest_tools and runs it with run_tool and the id web-search.

What happens if a run fails?

A run that fails or is stopped pays only for the results it delivered, with no call fee. The most a run can cost is held when it starts and the rest is released when it settles.