Search the developer index
Search GitHub issues, merged pull requests, repository READMEs and curated documentation sites, returning up to ten results with matched passages.
- Price
- $0.011 / call
- Success (7 days)
- —
- Median latency
- —
- Runs (30 days)
- 1
Details
- Tier
- bridged
- Safe to retry
- Yes
- Data
- Not classified
- Source terms
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Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | Yes | Natural-language question or search phrase. |
archived | boolean | No | Include or exclude archived repositories. |
fork | boolean | No | Include or exclude forks. |
k | integer | No | Number of ranked results (1-10, default 10). |
language | string | No | Repository primary language, e.g. Rust (repository results only). |
license | string | No | Repository license, e.g. MIT (repository results only). |
max_stars | integer | No | Upper bound on repository stars. |
min_stars | integer | No | Lower bound on repository stars. |
passages | integer | No | Matched passages per result (1-5, default 1). |
repos | array | No | Repository slugs such as owner/name to scope issue, pull request and README results. |
skills | string | No | Set to only to search indexed agent-skill files only. |
sources | array | No | Documentation source ids to scope doc results. |
topic | string | No | Repository topic, e.g. async (repository results only). |
types | array | No | Result kinds to search; defaults to all four. |
Call it
curl https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/tools/firecrawl.developer-search/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ORCAROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"input":{"query":"query"}}'curl "https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/tools/functions?ids=firecrawl.developer-search&format=openai" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ORCAROUTER_API_KEY"{
"mcpServers": {
"orcarouter": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/tools/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <ORCAROUTER_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Questions
How much does Search the developer index cost?
Search the developer index costs $0.011 per call: 1,000 calls cost $11.00.
What does a $10 budget buy with Search the developer index?
About 909 calls at $0.011 per call.
What inputs does Search the developer index need?
Required inputs: query.
How do I call Search the developer index?
Send POST /v1/tools/{id}/run with your OrcaRouter API key and a JSON body {"input": {…}}, where {id} is the tool id POST /v1/tools/discover returns for it.
Alternatives
| Tool | Price | Success (7 days) | Median latency | Runs (30 days) | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read a research paperGet one paper's metadata by paper id (arxiv:, pmid:, pmcid: or doi:), or, with a question, the full-text passages that best answer it. | $0.011 / call | 100.0% | 345 ms | 5 | bridged |
| Find related research papersExpand from a seed paper to similar papers, papers that cite it, or its references, ranked against a stated intent. | $0.011 / call | — | — | 1 | bridged |
| Search research papersSearch about 43 million paper abstracts from PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv and arXiv, returning up to ten ranked papers with ids, titles and abstracts. | $0.011 / call | 100.0% | 1.8 s | 9 | bridged |
| Search the open webFind up to ten web results without scraping their full pages. | $0.011 / call | — | — | 2 | bridged |
