# How to connect Search1API to Claude ```json { "title": "How to connect Search1API to Claude", "toolkit": "Search1API", "toolkit_slug": "search1api", "framework": "Claude Cowork", "framework_slug": "claude-cowork", "url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/claude-cowork", "markdown_url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/claude-cowork.md", "updated_at": "2026-10-29T05:35:03.227Z" } ``` ## Introduction Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Search1API account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to search latest climate news and summarize key developments, find coffee shops near your current location, extract product prices from this competitor website, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security. Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three. ## Also integrate Search1API with - [ChatGPT](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/chatgpt) - [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/hermes-agent) - [Atomic Agent](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/atomic-agent) ## Connect Search1API to Claude Cowork ### Connecting Search1API to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer. ### 1. Add with one click Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2. [Add to Claude](https://claude.ai/customize/connectors?modal=add-custom-connector&connectorName=Composio&connectorUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.composio.dev%2Fmcp) ### Add manually In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top. Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL: ```bash https://connect.composio.dev/mcp ``` ## What is the Search1API MCP server, and what's possible with it? The Search1API MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Search1API account. It provides structured and secure access to web, maps, news search, crawling, screenshots, sitemap discovery, and structured data extraction, so your agent can research topics, find places and current stories, collect website content, and extract useful data on your behalf. - Web and research search: Have your agent research a topic across multiple search engines, find relevant web pages, and return deduplicated results. - News and maps discovery: Let the agent search recent news with filters or find businesses and places on Google Maps. - Website crawling and discovery: Direct your agent to fetch readable content from public URLs, discover a site's sitemap, or start and check a multi-page crawl. - Structured data extraction: Instruct your agent to extract caller-defined information from a public webpage in a specified JSON shape. - Webpage capture and account insights: Have your agent take webpage screenshots, check Search1API service health, review usage, or retrieve a live trending feed. ## Supported Tools | Tool slug | Name | Description | |---|---|---| | `SEARCH1API_ASK_RESEARCH` | Ask Research | Run a natural-language research query across up to five provider-selected engines and return at most 10 deduplicated, reranked results plus partial source errors. Warning: each completed call costs 5 credits. | | `SEARCH1API_CRAWL_URLS` | Crawl URLs | Fetch readable content from one or more public URLs. Search1API charges 1 credit for each successful item; a target 404 or 410 is a completed, charged lookup. Batch successes may be unordered, and failed items may be omitted. | | `SEARCH1API_DISCOVER_SITEMAP` | Discover Sitemap | Discover sitemap URLs for a public site, or list all links on one public page without fetching page content. Warning: each completed call costs 1 Search1API credit. | | `SEARCH1API_EXTRACT_STRUCTURED_DATA` | Extract Structured Data | Extract caller-defined structured data from one public webpage using an optional prompt and JSON response shape. Warning: each completed call costs 10 Search1API credits. | | `SEARCH1API_GET_DEEPCRAWL_STATUS` | Get Deepcrawl Status | Get the current state of a deepcrawl task and its packaged result URL when available. Status checks are free; this tool performs one check and does not poll automatically or fetch the result package. | | `SEARCH1API_GET_HEALTH` | Get Health | Read Search1API's free, unauthenticated provider serving/readiness status. This endpoint does not validate the configured API key; use GET_USAGE for credential checks. | | `SEARCH1API_GET_TRENDING` | Get Trending | Return a platform's current live trending feed. Currently documented platform identifiers are github and hackernews; additional provider-supported identifiers are accepted. A successfully completed call costs 1 credit. | | `SEARCH1API_GET_USAGE` | Get Usage | Return the connected account's remaining Search1API credits and credential metadata. This call is free. The optional period is forwarded as documented, but the returned balance is not period consumption. | | `SEARCH1API_SEARCH_MAPS` | Search Maps | Search one Google Maps results page for businesses or places. Each completed page costs 3 Search1API credits, including an empty page; max_results only truncates the response and does not lower the charge. | | `SEARCH1API_SEARCH_NEWS` | Search News | Search recent news for one or more queries with source, site, language, and time filters, returning a typed outcome for each. Each query has a base cost of 1 credit plus 1 credit for each article page successfully fetched through crawl_results. News has no page field and this tool does not auto-paginate. | | `SEARCH1API_SEARCH_WEB` | Search Web | Search the web for one or more queries and return a typed outcome for each. Each query has a base cost of 1 credit plus 1 credit for each result page successfully fetched through crawl_results. The page field selects one native provider page only for Bing, Bing China, Baidu, and Grokipedia; this tool does not auto-paginate. | | `SEARCH1API_START_DEEPCRAWL` | Start Deepcrawl | Start an asynchronous multi-page crawl of a public site and return its task ID. WARNING: each submission creates server-side work and costs 20 Search1API credits. The native API exposes no maximum depth, page or result limit, path filter, or timeout control. | | `SEARCH1API_SUBMIT_FEEDBACK` | Submit Feedback | Create external feedback for Search1API about a problem, missing capability, or confusing documentation encountered during a task. Use this tool only when the user explicitly asks to contact Search1API or submit provider feedback. WARNING: this irreversibly stores a non-idempotent external report with the provider and has no retraction endpoint. Never include credentials, PII, or private user content. Do not report every empty result, do not retry the same report automatically, and never let feedback block the primary task. The call is free and limited to 10 submissions per account per minute at a Cloudflare location. | | `SEARCH1API_TAKE_SCREENSHOT` | Take Screenshot | Render a public webpage as a PNG, JPEG, or WebP file with viewport, readiness, selector, and appearance controls. A successful screenshot costs 2 Search1API credits; failed requests are not charged. | ## Supported Triggers None listed. ## Troubleshooting ### 1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Search1API? The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Search1API conversation. - Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /. - Hover Connectors. - Turn on Composio. - Ask Claude to connect to Search1API again. ### 2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Search1API connects? Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Search1API. - Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp. - Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem. - Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Search1API. - If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev. ### 3. Why does the Search1API authorization link not work? The Composio connector is one server. Your Search1API account connects separately when Claude asks for it. - If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Search1API connection. - Composio creates a fresh Search1API authorization link. - Open that link in your browser and finish the Search1API sign-in. ### 4. Why do Search1API actions fail after they worked before? The Search1API connection can expire or lose permission. - Ask Claude to inspect the Search1API connection. - If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you. - Reconnect the Search1API account and retry the action. - If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Search1API. - If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Search1API itself. ### 5. How do I switch to a different Search1API account? Claude can manage the Search1API connection for you. - Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Search1API account. - Ask Claude to connect Search1API again. - Open the new Composio authorization link for Search1API. - Sign in with the other Search1API account in the browser. - After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Search1API task. ### 6. Why is my Search1API connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan? The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Search1API connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork. - In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors. - Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache. - If Search1API tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again. - On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Search1API. ## Creating MCP Server - Stand-alone vs Composio SDK The Search1API MCP server connects Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork to your Search1API account through Composio. Once connected, Claude can use the available Search1API tools and triggers to complete tasks on your behalf. ## Complete Code None listed. ## How to build Search1API MCP Agent with another framework - [ChatGPT](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/chatgpt) - [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/hermes-agent) - [Atomic Agent](https://composio.dev/toolkits/search1api/framework/atomic-agent) ## Related Toolkits - [Supabase](https://composio.dev/toolkits/supabase) - Supabase is an open-source backend platform offering scalable Postgres databases, authentication, storage, and real-time APIs. It lets developers build modern apps without managing infrastructure. - [Codeinterpreter](https://composio.dev/toolkits/codeinterpreter) - Codeinterpreter is a Python-based coding environment with built-in data analysis and visualization. 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You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Search1API tools. ### Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Search1API while using Tool Router? Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Search1API scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do. ### How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router? All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Search1API data and credentials are handled as safely as possible. --- [See all toolkits](https://composio.dev/toolkits) · [Composio docs](https://docs.composio.dev/llms.txt)