autosearch 2026.4.25.10

MCP research tool supplier for coding agents, with 39 academic, web, developer, and Chinese-source channels

 AutoSearch

Open-source deep research for coding agents. An alternative to OpenAI and Perplexity Deep Research — 40 channels including Chinese sources.

Docs • Install • Channels • 中文

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You ask your AI to research something. It answers from training data cutoff —

• "Show me this week's LLM papers on arxiv" → can't, no academic database access
• "What are people saying about this product on Reddit" → shallow, only surface-level web results
• "Find similar open-source projects on GitHub" → weak, general search misses most repos
• "Summarize the Twitter discussion on this topic" → blocked, no public API
• "Compare opinions on Hacker News vs Chinese tech forums" → two platforms, manual aggregation

AutoSearch fixes this in one line. Pick the path that matches you:

Have Node? (most common — works on macOS, Linux, Windows)

npx autosearch-ai

Using Claude Code / Cursor / Zed? Paste this into your AI agent:

Help me install AutoSearch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch/main/docs/install.md

Shell user on macOS / Linux?

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

The npm wrapper runs install/init only when you invoke it explicitly. Plain npm install -g autosearch-ai does not auto-run init; avoiding npm install-time scripts is intentional supply-chain hardening.

After install, your Agent searches 40 channels simultaneously — academic papers, developer communities, Chinese social media, and Linux DO forum threads — results deduplicated and ranked, every result includes a source URL.

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Channels

Channel	Ready out of box	Unlocked after config	How to configure
📄 arxiv	Academic preprints CS/ML/Physics	—	No config needed
🔬 PubMed / OpenAlex / DBLP	Biomedical + cross-discipline papers	—	No config needed
🐙 GitHub	Code, Issues, repository search	—	No config needed
🔍 DuckDuckGo	General web search	—	No config needed
🟠 Hacker News	Developer discussions + early product signals	—	No config needed
📖 Reddit	Community discussion + real user experiences	—	No config needed
🤗 Hugging Face	Open-source ML model search	—	No config needed
📦 Stack Overflow	Programming Q&A	—	No config needed
📰 Google News	Real-time news aggregation	—	No config needed
💻 dev.to	Developer blogs	—	No config needed
📊 SEC EDGAR	US company filings	—	No config needed
🌐 Wikipedia / Wikidata	Encyclopedia + structured knowledge	—	No config needed
💬 WeChat Official Accounts	Full-text article search	—	No config needed
📱 36kr / InfoQ	Chinese tech & business news	—	No config needed
🧵 Linux DO / Discourse Forums	Linux DO topics and Discourse-based public forum discussions	—	No config needed
🎬 YouTube	Video search + transcripts	—	Set YOUTUBE_API_KEY
📺 Bilibili	Chinese tech videos	—	Set TIKHUB_API_KEY
📹 WeChat Channels	Chinese short videos (视频号)	—	TIKHUB_API_KEY
🌸 Xiaohongshu	Lifestyle + product reviews	More stable	autosearch login xhs or TIKHUB_API_KEY
🐦 Twitter / X	Real-time discussion + tech news	—	TIKHUB_API_KEY
📣 Weibo / Douyin / Zhihu	Chinese social + in-depth discussion	—	TIKHUB_API_KEY
📈 Xueqiu	A-share / HK stock discussion	—	autosearch login xueqiu
💼 LinkedIn	Public pages via Jina Reader	—	No config needed

Not sure how to configure? Just tell your Agent "help me configure XXX" — it will guide you step by step.

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After install

Run autosearch doctor to check the status of every channel:

AutoSearch Channel Status
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Always-on (27/27)   ✅ arxiv  ✅ github  ✅ hackernews ...
API-key   (0/11)    ○  youtube  →  set YOUTUBE_API_KEY
                    ○  bilibili →  set TIKHUB_API_KEY
Login     (0/2)     ○  xiaohongshu  →  autosearch login xhs
                    ○  xueqiu       →  autosearch login xueqiu

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License

MIT.