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TinyFish by Monid

Free live web search, browser-rendered page fetches and change checks for agents

What it is

TinyFish is a web search and page-fetch service exposed to agents through Monid. Its product page offers live browser-rendered search, model-ready Markdown fetches for up to 10 URLs per call, freshness windows down to 60 minutes, and page-change checks that can return not_modified: true.

The page lists search and fetch at $0 with no subscription, API key or credit card, while Monid's other tools start with paid credit.

How to apply

  • Use it as the collection layer for Collecting Content Demand with an Audience Radar when the monitored material is available on the public web.
  • Connect it to an agent such as Claude Code when a workflow needs current search results or browser-rendered pages in Markdown rather than cached snippets.
  • Use the change-check response to avoid reprocessing an unchanged reference page in recurring monitoring.

Limits

  • Features, price and limits are based only on Monid's product page and were not independently tested.

  • The page does not specify production rate limits, uptime commitments, geographic coverage, retention policy or the conditions under which free access may change.

  • Search quality, blocked-page success and the advertised comparison with paid search APIs were not independently verified as of 2026-09-04.

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