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Desearch AI vs Public APIs
A curated list of public APIs; not a search service itself but a directory for finding alternatives.
Desearch AIYour real time AI search layer.Side by side
- What it is
- Desearch AI:Desearch AI provides a real-time search API for AI agents that pulls fresh web, social and scholarly data with source links.
- Public APIs:Public APIs is a collaborative directory of 1400+ public APIs that developers can browse by category and bookmark.
- Best for
- Desearch AI:Decentralized real-time search for AI agents
- Public APIs:Curated list of public APIs
- Who it’s for
- Desearch AI:Developers building AI agents, chatbots, or automation that need up-to-date web content.
- Public APIs:Developers looking for ready-to-use public APIs for their projects.
- Pricing
- Desearch AI:Freemium
- Public APIs:Free
- Open source
- Desearch AI:—
- Public APIs:Yes, 9,504 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Desearch AI:JavaScript SDK, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI
- Public APIs:—
- DevHunt upvotes
- Desearch AI:0
- Public APIs:41
- Launched on DevHunt
- Desearch AI:Jan 2026
- Public APIs:Jan 2023
Desearch AI features
- Web Search. Returns SERP-style results with titles, snippets and links across the open web.
- AI Search. Generates AI-summarized answers with source citations from multiple providers.
- Extract. Fetches clean text or HTML from any URL, bypassing cached snapshots.
- X Search. Retrieves posts, profiles, replies and trends from X (Twitter) with optional social signals.
- Multi-source selection. Choose from web, X, Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube, Hacker News and arXiv per request.
- SDKs & integrations. REST API plus Python and JavaScript SDKs; guides for LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI.
Public APIs features
- Category browsing. Explore APIs organized by functional categories.
- Bookmark favorites. Save and quickly access preferred APIs.
- Collaborative curation. Community-maintained list sourced from an open-source repository.
- Featured APIs. Highlights of popular APIs such as SerpApi, TranscriptFetch, and Supadata.
- Latest additions. Continuously updated feed of new APIs across many domains.
- Searchable directory. Quickly find APIs using keywords or tags.
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