Hermes
Give Hermes Agent live web search, news, page retrieval, sitemap discovery, and trending topics with the native hermes-search1api plugin.
hermes-search1api is a native Hermes Agent plugin that gives Hermes live web access through Search1API — web search, news search, readable page retrieval, sitemap discovery, and trending topics.
It registers these as first-class Hermes tools (search1api_*), not as a swap-in for Hermes's built-in web_search backend and not as an MCP bridge.
A bundled skill (plugin:search1api) teaches the agent when to search, when to read a URL, and which filters fit a quick lookup versus deep research. Load it with skill_view("plugin:search1api").
Install
hermes plugins install superagents-lab/hermes-search1api --enable
export SEARCH1API_KEY="your-key"SEARCH1API_API_KEY is also accepted. Put the key in ~/.hermes/.env or the shell environment.
The official search1api Python SDK is vendored into the plugin. Its only runtime dependency (httpx) is already part of Hermes.
What the agent can do
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search1api_search | Live web search, with time_range, include_sites / exclude_sites, search_service, and optional crawl_results |
search1api_news | News search with the same filters |
search1api_crawl | Read one public URL as clean Markdown |
search1api_sitemap | Enumerate a site's URLs |
search1api_trending | Trending GitHub repos or Hacker News stories |
All tools return JSON. Errors come back as {"success": false, "error": {"type", "message", "status_code?"}}.
Credentials
- Create a key in the Search1API dashboard.
- Export it as
SEARCH1API_KEY(orSEARCH1API_API_KEY).
Credits
Search and news requests cost one credit each; crawling a page costs one additional credit per successfully crawled page. New accounts receive 100 credits without a credit card. See Credits and limits for current rates.
Source
DeepSeek Harness
Give your DeepSeek Harness agent live web access with the native dsh-s1 plugin — web search, news, page retrieval, sitemap discovery, and trending topics as first-class dsh tools.
OpenClaw
Give OpenClaw live web search, news, page retrieval, sitemap discovery, and trending topics with the native openclaw-search1api plugin from ClawHub.