Search engines, web crawlers, and content APIs that give your application access to real-world data for retrieval-augmented generation.
Search and retrieval APIs are the backbone of RAG systems, research agents, and web-aware assistants. They determine how well an agent can discover current information, resolve ambiguity, and gather enough evidence before it writes or acts.
This page combines multiple shapes of retrieval tooling: classic web search, content discovery, crawling, scraping, and document-oriented data access. Together they cover the main ways agents pull external context into a prompt or memory system.
For production use, compare freshness, source coverage, rate limits, and how much cleaning is required before the output can be embedded, summarized, or passed to downstream tools.
