arcade-scavio

Scavio real-time search tools for Arcade.dev and MCP — Google, Google News, Reddit, YouTube, and Amazon, with one API key. A cost-effective Tavily alternative and SerpAPI alternative for Arcade agents.

Install

pip install arcade-scavio

Scope: 9 endpoints, by design

This toolkit is a curated subset of the Scavio API, not a wrapper around all of it. It exposes 9 of Scavio's 98 endpoints across 4 of its 10 platforms:

Platforms covered here: Google (2), YouTube (5), Reddit (1), Amazon (1). Not covered: Walmart, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and the other 12 Google v2 verticals (Maps, Shopping, Flights, Hotels, Trends, AI Mode, ...). That is deliberate — a hand-picked toolkit an agent routes correctly beats a hundred near-identical tools — and it stays that way.

Each tool reads the SCAVIO_API_KEY secret, which Arcade injects securely at call time (the client and LLM never see the value).

Credits

This toolkit is not flat 1 credit. Seven of the nine tools cost 1, but search_youtube costs 2 and get_youtube_transcript costs 8.

Elsewhere in the API (not exposed here): YouTube streams 3, Instagram 2-10, LinkedIn 1-10 with a job at 30, everything else 1. New accounts get 50 one-time signup credits — no monthly refill, no credit card.

Run standalone

export SCAVIO_API_KEY=sk_live_...   # get one at https://dashboard.scavio.dev
python -m arcade_scavio.server          # stdio
python -m arcade_scavio.server http     # HTTP+SSE

Deploy to Arcade Cloud

arcade login
arcade deploy

Arcade discovers the SCAVIO_API_KEY secret and hosts it encrypted; the Arcade Engine fulfils authorized tool calls for your users.

Every endpoint via MCP

Need Walmart, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Maps, Shopping, Flights or Hotels? Scavio runs a hosted MCP server at https://mcp.scavio.dev/mcp that exposes 100 tools, one per endpoint, authenticated with an x-api-key header — no install, no toolkit to deploy. See the MCP docs.

About Scavio

Scavio is a real-time search API built for AI agents — a unified API over Google, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, Reddit, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn that returns clean JSON. 98 live endpoints, one key. A broader, cost-effective Tavily alternative and SerpAPI alternative. See the Arcade integration docs.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Links

• Scavio: https://scavio.dev
• Docs: https://scavio.dev/docs/arcade
• Dashboard: https://dashboard.scavio.dev