One API to search
every platform

Scavio acts as the real-time data layer between your AI agents and the platforms they need to search. Your agent sends a standard HTTP POST request specifying a query and target platform (Google, Amazon, YouTube, or Walmart) to the Scavio API endpoint, and receives a structured JSON response containing titles, URLs, descriptions, and metadata. This gives AI agents real-time access to search results across every supported platform without needing to manage browser automation, proxy rotation, or platform-specific APIs. The API is designed for machine consumption with consistent response formats across all platforms. Integration requires just an API key and a single HTTP request. Most developers can connect their agents to Scavio in under 10 minutes using the provided Python, JavaScript, or cURL examples. New platforms like TikTok and Instagram are being added regularly.

Scavio currently supports four major platforms: Google (web search), Amazon (product search), YouTube (video search), and Walmart (product search). TikTok and Instagram support are coming soon. Through the unified API, you can search any supported platform using the same endpoint and authentication. This eliminates the need to manage multiple platform-specific API integrations, each with their own authentication flows and rate limits. For each platform, Scavio returns structured data including titles, URLs, content, metadata, and pricing information in a consistent JSON format. Results from different platforms can be combined in a single workflow, which is particularly useful for AI agents performing market research, price comparison, product discovery, or competitive intelligence across multiple data sources. New platforms are added regularly based on developer demand.

Yes. Scavio offers a permanently free plan with 1,000 credits per month and no credit card required to sign up. Each API request consumes exactly 1 credit, so the free tier allows 1,000 search or data retrieval requests per month. This is sufficient to test the API, build and validate a prototype, or run a small personal project in production. The free plan includes standard rate limits of 10 requests per minute and access to community support. When you need more capacity, you can upgrade to a paid plan at any time or purchase additional credits on demand at $0.005 per credit ($5 per 1,000 credits). Paid plans start at $30 per month for 7,000 credits and scale up to $500 per month for 200,000 credits, with higher rate limits and dedicated support at each tier.

Scavio is a standard REST API that works with any programming language or HTTP client capable of sending POST requests with JSON payloads. The official documentation provides complete code examples for Python (using the requests library), JavaScript (using fetch or axios), and cURL for terminal-based testing. Since the entire integration consists of a single HTTP POST request with a JSON body and a Bearer token for authentication, you can use Scavio from Go, Ruby, Java, Rust, PHP, C#, Swift, Kotlin, or any other language with HTTP support. No SDK or client library installation is required. The API returns standard JSON responses with consistent field names, making it straightforward to deserialize results in any language. Most developers complete their first successful API call within 5 minutes of signing up.

Scavio is purpose-built for AI agent workflows, which sets it apart from traditional search APIs in three key ways. First, Scavio is not limited to Google. While Tavily, SerpAPI, and Google Custom Search only return Google search results, Scavio searches across Google, Amazon, YouTube, and Walmart from a single API endpoint, with TikTok and Instagram coming soon. Second, Scavio returns enriched, structured data optimized for machine consumption rather than raw search engine result page data. Results include parsed titles, clean URLs, descriptions, and metadata in a consistent JSON format. Third, pricing is simple and credit-based with no per-query minimums, no complex tier restrictions, and no annual contracts. Each API request costs 1 credit. The free tier provides 1,000 monthly credits, while on-demand credits cost $0.005 each.

Credits are the unit of usage on Scavio. Each API request, whether it is a Google search, Amazon product search, YouTube search, Walmart search, or any other platform query, consumes exactly 1 credit regardless of the platform. Your plan includes a monthly credit allowance that resets automatically at the start of each billing cycle. The Free plan includes 1,000 credits, Project includes 7,000, Bootstrap includes 28,000, Startup includes 85,000, and Growth includes 200,000 credits per month. If you need more credits beyond your plan allowance, you can purchase them on demand at $0.005 per credit ($5 per 1,000 credits) with no minimum purchase required. Unused monthly credits do not roll over to the next billing cycle. You can monitor your credit usage and remaining balance in real time from the Scavio dashboard, which also provides historical usage charts and alerts when you approach your monthly limit.

Yes. Scavio implements multiple layers of API key security. All API keys are encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption and are only transmitted over HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or higher. The platform supports separate live and test keys, allowing you to develop and test your integration safely without consuming production credits or affecting live data. You can create, rotate, and revoke API keys instantly from the Scavio dashboard, and each key includes a unique prefix (sk_live_ or sk_test_) for easy identification. We recommend storing API keys in environment variables or a secrets manager and never exposing them in client-side code, version control, or public repositories. The dashboard also provides an audit log of all API key operations, so you can track when keys were created, rotated, or revoked.

If you exceed your plan's rate limit, the Scavio API returns an HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) status code with a Retry-After header indicating the number of seconds until you can make your next request. Rate limits are enforced on a per-minute sliding window basis and vary by plan: Free allows 10 requests per minute, Project allows 30, Bootstrap allows 60, Startup allows 120, and Growth allows 200 requests per minute. We recommend implementing exponential backoff with jitter in your retry logic to handle rate limit responses gracefully. The API also returns X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset headers with every response, so your application can proactively throttle requests before hitting the limit. If you consistently need higher rate limits, contact us about custom enterprise plans.

Absolutely. All Scavio plans, including the free tier, can be used for commercial applications with no restrictions. There are no separate commercial licenses, no revenue-sharing requirements, and no usage clauses that limit commercial deployment. Many customers use Scavio to power production AI applications, research tools, content aggregation platforms, competitive intelligence systems, and customer-facing search features. The API is designed for production workloads with a 99.9% uptime SLA on paid plans, dedicated support for Startup and Growth tiers, and rate limits engineered for consistent throughput. You can start building on the free tier, validate your use case, and scale to a paid plan as your application grows, all without changing your integration code or API endpoint.