Desearch Web Search

🚀 Overview

Datura Web Search (SERP) - Apify is an actor that enables you to perform real-time AI-powered web searches. Powered by Datura's intelligent search engine Datura.ai, it retrieves results from various online sources, including news, blogs, Twitter, and more, all delivered in a structured JSON format.

🛠 Features

AI-enhanced web search
Retrieves titles, links, snippets, and optional dates
Supports pagination with the start parameter
Optimized for Apify automation
Clean JSON output format

📌 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	String	✅ Yes	The search term you want to query (e.g., `"latest AI tools"`).
`num`	Integer	✅ Yes	Number of results to return (default: `100`, max: `100`).
`start`	Integer	✅ Yes	Starting index of results (used for pagination).

📤 Output Format

Results are returned as a JSON array like this:

 [
    {
        "title": "Common AI Models and When to Use Them? - GeeksforGeeks",
        "snippet": "An AI model is a computational representation or framework that is designed to perform specific tasks or functions by learning from data...",
        "link": "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/common-ai-models-and-when-to-use-them/",
        "date": null
    },
    {
        "title": "Understanding GPT Models: A Guide - OpenAI Blog",
        "snippet": "GPT models are a type of language model developed by OpenAI that use deep learning to produce human-like text...",
        "link": "https://openai.com/blog/understanding-gpt",
        "date": "2024-12-12"
    }
]

📈 Use Cases

💡 Market Research: Discover trends and insights

💡 SEO & Content Strategy: Gather article ideas and keywords

💡 Brand Monitoring: Track mentions of brands or topics

💡 Academic Research: Find articles and sources