This is an n8n community node. It lets you search and retrieve live public web content with Search1API in n8n workflows.
Search1API provides web and news search across general and vertical sources, readable page retrieval, sitemap discovery, trending topics, and API usage reporting.
Follow the community nodes installation guide and install:
n8n-nodes-search1api
- Web Search: Search — search the live web with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, arXiv, Wikipedia, and other supported sources.
- News Search: Search — search current news from Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Hacker News, or Reuters.
- Page: Retrieve — retrieve readable content from a public URL.
- Sitemap: Discover — discover sitemap URLs or all public links on a site.
- Trending Topic: Get Many — get current GitHub or Hacker News trends.
- Usage: Get — inspect API-key usage over a selected period.
The Search1API node can be used as an n8n AI tool.
- Create or sign in to a Search1API account.
- Create an API key in the Search1API dashboard.
- In n8n, create a Search1API API credential and paste the key.
- Test the credential. The test calls the read-only
/usageendpoint and does not run a search.
Keep API keys in n8n credentials. Do not place them directly in workflow fields or exported workflow JSON.
- Node.js 22 or later is required to build the package.
- The package uses n8n Nodes API version 1 and the current community-node tooling.
- Version 0.1.0 is tested with the n8n development runtime bundled by
@n8n/node-cli0.41.x.
For a focused lookup, use Web Search with five to ten results. For deeper research, increase the result count and set Crawl Results to retrieve the full text for the most relevant results.
Use a vertical source when the workflow has a clear target:
- GitHub for repositories and code projects
- Reddit for community discussions
- ArXiv for research papers
- YouTube for videos
- WeChat or Bilibili for Chinese-language content
Every operation is read-only. Search results include source URLs that can be passed to later workflow steps.
Initial release with web search, news search, page retrieval, sitemap discovery, trending topics, usage reporting, API-key credentials, and AI tool support.