POST/v1/search

Web search without a search subscription, returning titles, URLs and snippets.

$0.005
query
lang

What it does

One paragraph, no pitch.

Web search without a search subscription, returning titles, URLs and snippets.

Price

Quoted by the 402 before anything runs.

$0.005per call
whole-call budget
billedonly when content is delivered
no keythe payment is the credential

x402 settlement is live on eip155:8453: sign a USDC transfer and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.

When to call it

Cheapest endpoint that answers the question, first.

Call it when the sentence above is the whole job. Its neighbours solve the same URL with a different trade-off — a browser instead of plain HTTP, a site instead of one page, one section instead of a document. /choose walks the decision in thirteen routes, cheapest first, browser last.

Not sure the page is worth paying for at all? /v1/probe is free and returns the status, content type, size, title, language and whether a bot wall is waiting — no body.

Request fields

JSON body. Send this to https://readfetch.com/v1/search.

Field	Type	Default	What it does
`query` required	string	—
`egress`	string	—	Egress pool to leave through: `direct` (the default route, no proxy) or any pool the operator configured, e.g. `residential` (the home exit) or `local`. Omit to route by host rules.
`limit`	number	5
`lang`	string	—	e.g. en, de-DE
`tbs`	string	—	Time range.

Make the call

Unpaid, this answers 402 with the quote. Sign accepts[0] and resend with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.

curl

curl -s https://readfetch.com/v1/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":"readfetch"}'

json body

{
  "query": "readfetch"
}

Response

Fields shown are the ones a caller branches on.

200 ok

{
  "billed": true,
  "hint": null,
  "query": "rust async runtime",
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "snippet": "...",
      "title": "Tokio",
      "url": "https://tokio.rs/"
    }
  ],
  "status": "success"
}

Limits

Requests are JSON, 1 MiB maximum. Redirects are re-validated at every hop and capped at 5; the final URL is reported. is the whole-call budget — DNS, connect, redirects, retries and any render share it, and no step starts a fresh clock.

Failures come back as {"error": "…", "hint": "…"} with a status to branch on: 402 for the quote, 429 with Retry-After, 502 and 504 for the upstream. /docs lists the shapes.

Billing

Settled after the work, only when something was delivered.

$0.005 per delivered call. A response with billed: false settles nothing and names the next call to try.

billed: false means nothing settled: a bot wall, an empty extraction, an unsupported type or a transport failure. The hint on that response names the next call to try.

Every settlement carries a signed RECEIPT bound to the transaction. If a paid call delivered nothing, a claim issues a single-use credit for it — the rail cannot refund.