Stories you can date
News results come with a publication date, so your agent never passes off an old story as today's.
News search for agents
Let your agent follow
the news.
Trawlia is a search engine for agents that is built mostly for news. Your agent answers from recent coverage it can date and cite, instead of from whatever the open web happens to rank first.
Get a free API key See what you get
$0.00613 a credit 1,000 free credits a month, no card No SDK to install
News
News search
News is what Trawlia is mostly for, and where most of the work has gone. An agent that answers from the open web gets last year's article as readily as this morning's. Here it gets the story that is actually current.
Only the period you care about
Ask for the last day, the last week or a set of dates, and older stories stay out of the answer.
Cited to the publisher
Stories link to the outlet that wrote them, not to an aggregator, and the same article found by several sources appears once.
Need something that is not news? Trawlia searches the wider web too.
Results
Better results
Search APIs are easy to compare on price and speed; what decides whether your agent answers well is the quality of what comes back to it.
| Search API | Results returned of 20 |
|---|---|
| Trawlia | 20 |
| Engine A | 19.31 |
| Engine B | 18.13 |
| Engine C | 9.13 |
Reliability
No silent failures
A search that finds nothing says so, and a search that breaks says that instead. Your agent is never handed an empty answer that secretly means something went wrong.
Nothing found means nothing found
An empty result is the web having nothing to say, never a cover for an outage, so your agent does not conclude that a story does not exist because a source was down.
Pages that could not be read are named
When your agent reads full pages, each one that could not be retrieved comes back marked as such, with the reason, instead of vanishing from the list.
Requests are never half-honoured
Ask for something Trawlia does not do and it refuses by name, rather than returning an answer that quietly ignores what you asked.
Answer with current news
Ask what happened this week and get back coverage your agent can date and cite.
Search API reference →Read any page
Hand over a list of links and get readable text back, ready for research or your own retrieval pipeline.
Extract page content →Use it from Claude or Cursor
Add Trawlia to your assistant as a tool, with no code to write.
Connect with MCP →Speed
Know how long a search takes.
18ms
cached
275ms
first ask
94%
of results carried a citable publisher URL
Median of 16 fixed queries at the default search depth, measured against the live service on 2026-08-14. A call that errored is counted, never dropped.
Pricing
$0.00613a credit
On the Scale plan: $49 a month for 8,000 credits.
- Basic search
- 1 credit
- Advanced search
- 2 credits
- Extraction
- 1 credit / 5 URLs
Know what each request costs.
One balance and a published price for every operation, so you can work out what a call costs before you make it. A basic search is one credit, advanced is two, and extraction is one credit per five URLs. The free plan includes 1,000 credits each month: enough for 1,000 basic searches or 500 advanced searches. Paid plans renew monthly; see pricing for billing details.
Fit
Works with what you already have
Nothing to install and no library of ours to keep up with. Trawlia drops into an agent or a retrieval pipeline you have already built.
Any language
If your code can make a web request, it can use Trawlia. There is no SDK to learn and nothing to update when we change something.
An easy switch
If your agent already calls a search API of this kind, moving over is usually a change of address and key, and you can keep the rest of your code.
Set up by your coding agent
Point a coding agent at our setup page and it can wire Trawlia in without you reading a thing. The page comes from the code that serves your requests, so it cannot describe something that no longer exists.
Prefer to read first? Everything is in the API reference.
Try it on a question your agent needs to answer.
1,000 credits a month, no card, and the same API the paid plan gets. Run your own evaluation set through it and check the sources and content yourself.