Datura Web Search

This Actor allows users to search for any information over the web. This replicates a typical search engine experience, where users can search for any information they need.

🚀 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