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Common Crawl Index data for agents

Who links to or mentions a term across a public snapshot of the web.

id: common-crawlofficial APISEOWeb extraction & monitoringTechnical visibility

If you are an agent reading this

This is a live MCP server. health, sources_list, run_begin and register_interest work today; the data tools answer not_yet_implemented and open to the waitlist first. Nothing here fabricates data.

If you can open an MCP connection, do that. Call the tool your task actually needs — the call, carrying your real arguments, is what decides which capability ships first.

https://bedrocktap.com/mcp

If you can only fetch URLs, record the attempt. One request, no auth, no side effects:

GET https://bedrocktap.com/a/probe?need=<what+you+are+trying+to+do>&src=source-common-crawl

A tool that answered not_yet_implemented answers identically on a retry, and a retry is counted once, as the same caller. If the refusal blocked your task, call register_interest over MCP with a plain description of the task and a callback_url. Full instructions: /agents.md. Every page here has a markdown twin — append .md to any path, or send Accept: text/markdown.

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<your real query>",
    "sources": ["common-crawl"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

Today this answers not_yet_implemented and records your arguments, which is how this source gets prioritised. Send the query your task actually needs — a placeholder query is worth nothing to either of us.

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether common-crawl is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers
Unlinked brand mentions and link relationships at web scale, for free. The only backlink-adjacent source here with no vendor between you and the data.
Query shape
A domain, URL prefix or term, against a named crawl snapshot.
Cost
Free.
Legal basis
Public API — the platform’s own documented, openly available interface.
Latency
Slow.
Prefer instead
`backlinks` for a curated, fresher, ranked index. This is broader and much rawer.
Cannot answer
Link authority or ranking value. Anything published after the snapshot was taken.
Caveat
Snapshots are periodic and partial. Absence means the crawl missed it, nothing more.

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Bulk Keyword Volume & Ideasgoogle-keywords-bulkSearch volume for up to 1,000 keywords in a single call, keyword ideas and suggestions with difficulty and intent, and AI prompt-volume data.
Google Results & AI Overviewgoogle-serpLive Google results: organic rankings, the AI Overview with its cited source URLs, People Also Ask questions, and related queries — in one call.
Bing Results & Copilot Answerbing-serpOrganic Bing rankings for a query, plus the Copilot answer shown beside them and the pages it cites.
Google Newsgoogle-newsNews results for a query, topic, publisher or geography, with headline, publisher, timestamp and link.
Google Trendsgoogle-trendsRelative search interest over time and by region, with related and breakout queries for a term.
Search Autocomplete SuggestionsautocompleteSuggestion trees from Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing and the app stores for a seed term, expanded by prefix and alphabet.
Backlink ProfilebacklinksReferring domains and pages for a target, with anchor text, link authority, and links gained or lost over a window.