Search with TinyFish

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TinyFish searches a free web index built for agents, with news and research-paper modes.

Features4
Modes4
Filters3

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Pinned to TinyFish.

Recorded from live searches on 28 October 2026.

Features

TinyFish delivers 4 of the features on the feature list, each from one or more of its modes.

FeatureReturns
Web search (general)Ranked pages from the open web that match a query, each with a passage.
NewsNews articles on a subject, dated, from news sources; a date window keeps them to the last days.
Page textThe text of pages: the pages a query finds, read in full or as the passages that answer it, or the pages at given addresses.
Academic papersResearch papers and academic sources.

Modes

TinyFish has 4 search modes. Choose which of them a search may use under Routing on your account page.

  • Default search
  • News
  • Research paper
  • Fetch content

Filters TinyFish applies

Set them under filters. A filter a provider can’t apply returns 400 unsupported_filter.

FilterKeeps
domainsOnly these sites, or with "mode": "exclude", none of them.
recencyThe last so many days, or a range of dates.
languageOne language, by its code.
request.jsonJSON
{
  "query": "which language has the most native speakers",
  "top_k": 5,
  "requested_provider": "tinyfish",
  "filters": {
    "domains": { "values": ["en.wikipedia.org"] }
  }
}

Pin a query to TinyFish

  1. Over the HTTP API, send "requested_provider": "tinyfish" with the query and your search key.
  2. In an agent connected over MCP, ask it to search with TinyFish.

Results come back in the same shape for every provider, as the docs describe. Leave the field out, and Grounder routes each query to the provider most likely to answer it well.

search.shShell
curl https://api.grounder.net/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GROUNDER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "which language has the most native speakers",
    "top_k": 5,
    "requested_provider": "tinyfish"
  }'