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Product releases, integration patterns, and technical decisions from the team building one API for search and web data.
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The newest Model Context Protocol revision removes sessions and the initialize handshake. Here is what actually changed, what it means if you run a hosted MCP server, and how to talk to Search1API's Hosted MCP over the new protocol today.
Capture a full page, a viewport, or one visible page element as PNG, JPEG, or WebP without operating your own browser infrastructure.
Build with Search1API using official TypeScript and Python clients with typed requests, structured errors, retries, batches, and DeepCrawl polling.
Search1API now supports OAuth 2.1, PKCE, and Dynamic Client Registration across the REST API, Hosted MCP, and the first-party CLI—while keeping existing API keys fully supported.
DeepCrawl is an async API that crawls entire websites for RAG, knowledge bases, and content ingestion. Learn how deep crawling works and when to use it. Free 100 credits.
Bing Web Search API moved to Azure and got expensive. Compare alternatives and find a multi-engine search API that covers Bing, Google, Reddit, and more. Free 100 credits.
