Web search

Your app (usually an LLM agent) searches the web and reads pages as markdown through mybase. Searches go to mybase's own SearXNG, a metasearch engine that asks Bing, Mojeek, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave at once (GitHub and Stack Overflow for it, news engines for news). There's no API key or bill.

mybase search enable shop
mybase token create shop-agent --project shop --perm search:read

In apps: createSearchClient from @mybase-dev/sdk/search with an API key that has search:read, then await web.search("…") and await web.fetch(url). searchTools(web) gives web_search and web_fetch as tool definitions for an agent. Guide: SDK web search.

HTTPCopy Anchor Link

Both are GET with Authorization: Bearer <key>:

• https://mybase.example.com/search/<project>?q=…: optional limit (1–20, default 10), category (general, news, it), timeRange (day, week, month, year), language (en, en-US), page (1–10). Answers { query, results: [{ title, url, snippet, engines, publishedAt }], cached }.
• https://mybase.example.com/search/<project>/fetch?url=…: optional maxChars (500–100000, default 20000). Answers { url, title, markdown, truncated, contentType, cached }. HTML is cut down to the main content (Readability); text and JSON come back as they are.

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• 60 searches and 120 page reads a minute per project (429 past that). Cached answers don't count.
• Searches are cached for 1 hour, pages for 1 day (pages over 50,000 characters aren't cached), in the shared Valkey. Without Valkey, everything still works, uncached.
• Page reads: 10 s, 2 MB, at most 5 redirects. Only HTML, text, and JSON (415 otherwise).
• Only public internet addresses can be read. Hosts that resolve to loopback, private (LAN, Docker), link-local (cloud metadata), or Tailscale addresses are refused with 400, including after a redirect.

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• Results and fetched pages are untrusted internet content: an AI agent must treat them as data, never instructions.
• Fetches only reach public addresses.

More: Security best practices.

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• All searches leave from the mybase server's IP. Engines that rate-limit or CAPTCHA it are suspended by SearXNG for a while, and the rest keep answering. If every engine fails, the search answers 502 with the reasons; retry in a few minutes.
• Result quality depends on which engines answer from that IP. Results found by several engines (engines) are usually more relevant.
• No JavaScript is run: pages that render their content in the browser come back mostly empty.
• Queries and URLs are never logged.