---
title: "Web search for an AI agent, with no API key – superbot.gg"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/use-cases/web-search-for-agents-without-an-api-key"
summary: "Your agent searches the live web and gets titles, links and snippets. It needs no search API key and no connection of yours."
---

> Markdown of https://superbot.gg/use-cases/web-search-for-agents-without-an-api-key. Site index: /llms.txt.

# Web search for an agent, with no API key

Your agent searches the live web.
You add no search key.

[Get the app](https://superbot.gg/download?cta%5Fid=page%5Finstall) [see the real call](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/web-search-for-agents-without-an-api-key#call)

## What you get

- Titles, links and snippets from a live web search.
- News headlines for a topic, with the source and the publish time.
- No search key and no connection to set up.

## Ask your agent

Connect superbot once.
Other clients are on [the install page](https://superbot.gg/add).

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http superbot https://api.superbot.gg/mcp -s user
```

With no browser, post to the install route instead.

```sh
curl -fsS -X POST https://api.superbot.gg/mcp/install -d client=claude-code
```

Then ask in plain words.

```
superbot({"intent": "What changed in the latest Node.js release? Search the web and give me the links."})
```

This needs an account.
An agent with none signs you in through [/auth.md](https://superbot.gg/auth.md).
You read back one emailed code.

## One real call

A real call, run on 2026-10-18 from a test account.
The reply is the agent's own, with its heading and sources line cut.

call

```
superbot({"intent": "Search the web for the Model Context Protocol specification and give me the top three results with title and link."})
```

reply

```
Top results for "Model Context Protocol specification" (read 2026-10-18):

1. - [**Specification - Model Context Protocol**](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26): the main spec site, version 2025-03-26
2. - [**Overview - Model Context Protocol**](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic): the 2025-06-18 spec's base protocol, lifecycle and auth overview
3. - [**The 2026-07-28 Specification | Model Context Protocol Blog**](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/): announcement of the newest spec, with a stateless protocol core and updated SDKs
```

Web search, run live. Three results, each with a title and a link.

## Limits

Needs

A superbot account. No key and no connection.

Returns

Titles, links and snippets. To read the page behind a link, see [read a web page as clean text](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/read-a-web-page-as-clean-text).

## Related

- [Read a web page as clean text](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/read-a-web-page-as-clean-text)
- [Quick facts for agents, in one tool](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/quick-facts-for-agents-in-one-tool)
- [Search papers and GitHub repos from an agent](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/search-papers-and-github-repos-from-an-agent)
- [All use cases](https://superbot.gg/use-cases)

Search results link to the live pages they name. Read on 2026-10-18.