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Perform a web search

🔍 Web Search

Execute a web search and receive structured, provider-agnostic results. Powered by the Value SERP API with provider-specific metadata stripped out.

📋 Result Types

  • organic_results — Main search results (always included)
  • total_results — Total number of results found
  • related_searches — Related search query suggestions
  • people_also_ask — PAA questions with snippets and source links
  • local_results — Local business results (when location is set or detected)
  • ads — Paid advertisement entries (when present)
  • shopping_results — Shopping results (when available)
  • news_results — News articles (when tbm=nws or news is detected)
  • image_results — Image results (when tbm=isch)

🌍 Search Types via tbm

  • (omit) — Standard web search (default)
  • nws — News search
  • isch — Image search
  • vid — Video search
  • shop — Shopping search
post/api/data/{project_id}/search

Request

  • Base URL
    https://core.blink.new
  • URL
    https://core.blink.new/api/data/{project_id}/search
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Path parameters

project_idstring required
Example:my-project-123

Unique identifier for the project

Request body

qstring required

Search query (required)

locationstring

Geographic location in Value SERP format

hlstring

Language code (2 characters)

tbm'nws' | 'isch' | 'vid' | 'shop'

Search type: nws=news, isch=images, vid=videos, shop=shopping

numinteger

Number of results (let API handle default if not specified)

Example request

{
  "q": "chatgpt",
  "location": "San Francisco,CA,United States",
  "hl": "en",
  "tbm": "nws",
  "num": 10
}

Response

Search completed successfully

total_resultsstring

Total number of results found

related_searchesstring[]

Related search suggestions

Example response

{
  "total_results": "About 45,600,000 results",
  "related_searches": [
    "chatgpt login",
    "chatgpt plus"
  ]
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.