search1api-cli

Command-line interface for Search1API — web search, news, crawl, sitemap, reasoning, and trending from your terminal.

Installation

npm install -g search1api-cli

This installs two commands: search1api and s1 (shorthand).

Setup

Set your API key (get one at search1api.com):

s1 config set-key <your-api-key>

Or use an environment variable:

export SEARCH1API_KEY=<your-api-key>

Commands

search

Search the web across 13 search engines.

s1 search "Claude AI"
s1 search "rust async" -n 5 -s google
s1 search "machine learning" --include arxiv.org github.com
s1 search "breaking news" -t day
s1 search "web framework" -c 3    # crawl top 3 results for full content

Option	Description	Default
-n, --max-results <number>	Number of results (1-50)	10
-s, --service <service>	Search engine	google
-c, --crawl <number>	Crawl N results for full content	0
--include <sites...>	Only include these sites
--exclude <sites...>	Exclude these sites
-t, --time <range>	Time range: day, month, year
--json	Output raw JSON

Available search services: google, bing, duckduckgo, yahoo, x, reddit, github, youtube, arxiv, wechat, bilibili, imdb, wikipedia

news

Search for news articles.

s1 news "AI regulation"
s1 news "tech layoffs" -s hackernews -t day

Option	Description	Default
-n, --max-results <number>	Number of results (1-50)	10
-s, --service <service>	News service	bing
-c, --crawl <number>	Crawl N results for full content	0
--include <sites...>	Only include these sites
--exclude <sites...>	Exclude these sites
-t, --time <range>	Time range: day, month, year
--json	Output raw JSON

Available news services: google, bing, duckduckgo, yahoo, hackernews

crawl

Extract content from a URL.

s1 crawl https://example.com/article

sitemap

Get related links from a website.

s1 sitemap https://example.com

reasoning

Deep thinking and reasoning powered by DeepSeek R1.

s1 reasoning "Explain the fundamentals of quantum computing"
s1 reason "Compare REST vs GraphQL"    # 'reason' is a shorthand alias

trending

Get trending topics from popular platforms.

s1 trending github
s1 trending hackernews -n 20

Available services: github, hackernews

balance

Check your remaining API credits.

s1 balance

config

Manage CLI configuration.

s1 config set-key <key>   # Save API key
s1 config show             # Show current config

Claude Code Skill

This repo also includes a Claude Code skill that lets Claude automatically use s1 commands when you ask it to search the web, read URLs, check news, etc.

Install the skill:

npx skills add fatwang2/search1api-cli

Once installed, you can ask Claude things like:

• "search for the latest AI news"
• "what does this link say? https://example.com"
• "what's trending on GitHub?"
• "research quantum computing thoroughly"

Claude will automatically use the appropriate s1 command and summarize the results.

JSON Output

All commands support --json flag to output raw JSON, useful for piping and scripting:

s1 search "test" --json | jq '.results[0].title'
s1 balance --json

License

MIT