Web search & research
Web search & research in the looot catalog as of 2026-10-07: 21 jobs served by 24 providers, with the job ids to run and links to the live catalog.
As of 2026-10-07 (catalog revision 101776), Web search & research has 21 jobs across 7 platforms, served by 24 providers through 48 endpoints, 47 of them runnable now. The catalog changes every week; the live numbers are one call away:
curl "https://api.looot.ai/v1/catalog/overview?category=research&depth=jobs"Run any job below by its id: endpointId: "job:<job id>" on MCP run or POST /v1/runs, or looot run job:<job id>. See Jobs.
Search engines
4 jobs, 17 providers, 20 endpoints (20 runnable). Cheapest per call $0, per result $0.00025.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
web.search |
Search the web and get ranked results | 16 | $0 | $0.00025 |
search.bing-news |
Bing news search | 1 | $0.004 | n/a |
search.google-news |
Google news search | 1 | $0.004 | n/a |
search.google-news-light |
Google news light search | 1 | $0.004 | n/a |
Web data
4 jobs, 11 providers, 15 endpoints (14 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.00099, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
news.search |
Search the news for a topic | 8 | $0.00099 | n/a |
web.research |
Research web | 2 | $0.05 | n/a |
web.answer |
Answer web | 2 | $0.005 | n/a |
web.similar |
Similar web | 1 | $0.007 | n/a |
News
5 jobs, 1 provider, 5 endpoints (5 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.01, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
news.crypto |
Crypto news | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
news.crypto.count |
Count news crypto | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
news.market |
Market news | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
news.market.count |
Count news market | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
news.sources |
Sources news | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
Research agents
3 jobs, 2 providers, 3 endpoints (3 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.01, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
agent.runs.create |
Create agent runs | 1 | $0.15 | n/a |
research.findall |
Find every entity that matches a description | 1 | $0.25 | n/a |
research.task.run |
Run a web research task | 1 | $0.01 | n/a |
2 jobs, 1 provider, 2 endpoints (2 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.036, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
api.google.news.articles |
Articles api google news | 1 | $0.036 | n/a |
api.google.news.topics |
Topics api google news | 1 | $0.036 | n/a |
Search engine results
2 jobs, 1 provider, 2 endpoints (2 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.002, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
serp.google.news.live.advanced |
Advanced serp google news live | 1 | $0.002 | n/a |
serp.google.news.live.html |
Html serp google news live | 1 | $0.002 | n/a |
The Guardian
1 job, 1 provider, 1 endpoint (1 runnable). Cheapest per call $0.0719, per result n/a.
| Job id | What it does | Providers | Cheapest per call | Cheapest per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
api.guardian.authors.search |
Search api guardian authors | 1 | $0.0719 | n/a |
Find the right endpoint
- Search by what you want done: MCP
search,looot search "<words>", orGET /v1/catalog/search?q=<words>. - List one job’s providers, cheapest first:
searchwith{"filters": {"capability": "<job id>"}, "prefer": "cheapest"}. - Browse without an account: looot.ai/public-catalog or
GET https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog?text=<words>.