Cherry Studio web search
For Cherry Studio users: web search in every chat runs on the Search API once you change the API Host of one search provider.
Set it up
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1. Open the web search settings
Open Settings, then Web Search, and pick Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl or SearXNG as the Search service provider.
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2. Paste the address and your key
Paste that provider's address from the table below into API Host, and your key into API Key. For SearXNG, the key goes in a password field instead, as the section below shows.
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3. Check and save
Click Check. Cherry Studio shows Verification successful. Then click Set as Default.
API Host for each provider
| Provider | API Host | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Tavily | https://api.specstream.ai/tavily | API Key. Get a key |
| Exa | https://api.specstream.ai/exa | API Key. Get a key |
| Firecrawl | https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl | API Key. Get a key |
| SearXNG | https://api.specstream.ai/searxng | Password under HTTP authentication. Get a key |
With Firecrawl, you can also pick it as the URL fetch provider with the same API Host. Cherry Studio then reads the pages a chat links to through the Extract API.
SearXNG with a password
SearXNG has no API Key field in Cherry Studio. Under HTTP authentication, fill in both fields:
The Username can be any word: Cherry Studio needs one to send the password, and SpecStream reads only the password.
Check it works
After Check in the settings, start a chat, turn on Web Search under the message box, and ask about something from this week. The answer lists the search results it read.
Cost
Each search is one Search API call at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. It comes out of your balance, with no quote and no approval. Search API has the details.
A page read through the Firecrawl URL fetch provider is one Extract API page, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Your key
Get your key on the Search API screen of your SpecStream workspace. New accounts start with $10 of credit, no card.
To ask for whole lists of records from a Cherry Studio chat, add the SpecStream MCP server too: Cherry Studio over MCP. The same search setting works in other tools: Search API by one setting.