desync-search 0.2.16

API for the internet

Desync Search — "API to the Internet"

Motto: The easiest way to scrape and retrieve web data without aggressive rate limits or heavy detection.

Key Features

• No Rate Limiting: We allow you to scale concurrency without punishing usage. You can open many parallel searches; we’ll only throttle if the underlying cloud providers themselves are saturated.
• Extremely Low Detection Rates: Our “stealth_search” uses advanced methods for a “human-like” page visit. While we cannot guarantee 100% evasion, most websites pass under the radar, and CAPTCHAs—when they do appear—are often circumvented by a second pass.
• Competitive, Pay-as-You-Go Pricing: No forced subscriptions or huge minimum monthly costs. You pick how much you spend. Our per-search cost is typically half of what big competitors charge (who often require $1,000+ per month).
• First 1,000 Searches Free: Not convinced? Try it yourself, risk-free. We’ll spot you 1,000 searches when you sign up. Check out desync.ai for more info.

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Installation

Install via PyPI using:

pip install desync_search

This library requires Python 3.6+ and the requests package (installed automatically).

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Basic Usage

You’ll need a user API key (like "totallynotarealapikeywithactualcreditsonit").
A best practice is to store that key in an environment variable (e.g. DESYNC_API_KEY) to avoid embedding secrets in code:

export DESYNC_API_KEY="YOUR_ACTUAL_KEY"

Then in your Python code:

import os
from desync_search.core import DesyncClient

user_api_key = os.environ.get("DESYNC_API_KEY", "")
client = DesyncClient(user_api_key)

Here, the client automatically targets our production endpoint:

https://nycv5sx75joaxnzdkgvpx5mcme0butbo.lambda-url.us-east-1.on.aws/

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Searching for Data

1) Performing a Search

By default, search(...) does a stealth search (cost: 10 credits). If you want a test search (cost: 1 credit), pass search_type="test_search".

# Stealth Search (default)
page_data = client.search("https://www.137ventures.com/portfolio")

print("URL:", page_data.url)
print("Text length:", len(page_data.text_content))

# Test Search
test_response = client.search(
    "https://www.python.org", 
    search_type="test_search"
)
print("Test search type:", test_response.search_type)

Both calls return a PageData object if success=True. For stealth, you’ll typically see fields like .text_content, .internal_links, and .external_links. Example:

print(page_data)
# <PageData url=https://www.137ventures.com/portfolio search_type=stealth_search timestamp=... complete=True>

print(page_data.text_content[:200])  # first 200 chars of text

You can pass scrape_full_html=True to get the entire HTML, or remove_link_duplicates=False to keep duplicates:

stealth_response = client.search(
    "https://www.137ventures.com/portfolio",
    scrape_full_html=True,
    remove_link_duplicates=False
)
print(len(stealth_response.html_content), "HTML chars")

Example: Visit All Internal Links

A simple spider approach: after you search a page, you gather internal links, check which ones you haven’t visited, and recursively fetch them. Example pseudo-code:

visited = set()

def crawl(client, url):
    if url in visited:
        return
    visited.add(url)

    page_data = client.search(url)  # stealth by default
    print("Scraped:", url, "Found", len(page_data.internal_links), "internal links")

    # For each new internal link, crawl again
    for link in page_data.internal_links:
        if link not in visited:
            crawl(client, link)

# Start from a seed URL
crawl(client, "https://www.137ventures.com/portfolio")

Note: Keep an eye on your credit usage if you do large-scale crawling.

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Retrieving Past Results

2) Listing Available Results

Use list_available() to get minimal data for each past search:

records = client.list_available()
for r in records:
    print(r.id, r.url, r.search_type, r.created_at)

Each r is a PageData with minimal fields (omitting large text/html for bandwidth savings).

3) Pulling Detailed Data

If you want all fields (including text, HTML, links, etc.), call pull_data(...).
By default, we show:

# e.g. pull by record_id
details = client.pull_data(record_id=10)
if details:
    first = details[0]
    print(first.url, len(first.text_content), "chars of text")

You can also pass a url_filter if your library method supports it, e.g.:

details = client.pull_data(url_filter="https://example.org")

4) Checking Your Credits Balance

Get your current_credits_balance:

balance_info = client.pull_credits_balance()
print(balance_info)
# e.g. { "success": true, "credits_balance": 240 }

We store the user’s credits on our server, so you can see how many searches remain.

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Additional Notes

• Attribution: This package relies on open-source libraries like requests.
• Rate Limits: We do not impose user-level concurrency throttles, but large-scale usage could be slowed if the underlying cloud environment is heavily utilized.
• Your First 1,000 Searches: On new accounts, we credit 1,000 searches automatically, so you can test stealth or test calls with zero upfront cost.
• For more advanced usage (like admin ops, account creation, adding credits) see desync.ai or contact support.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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Happy scraping with Desync Search—the next-level “API to the Internet”! We look forward to your feedback and contributions.

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