The “small web” is bigger than you might think

Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think by SyneRyder on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:01PM (#47416071)

If that's an issue, and if you don't mind building something out yourself, Marginalia have an excellent API that you can connect to from your own personal non-Javascript meta-search engine. I did that, and I find Marginalia awesome to deal with. They're one of my favorite internet projects.

(Also, thanks for reminding me that it was time I donated something to the Marginalia project: https://buymeacoffee.com/marginalia.nu )

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Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think by sylware on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:51AM (#47424524)

Are there 'public'/'anonymous' API keys I could use to perform a web search with CURL?

(I guess I would get json formatted search result data)

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Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think by SyneRyder on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:06AM (#47424658)

There is! The API Key is literally "public". But apparently it often gets rate limited, because seemingly every Metasearch engine uses that one. I think there might also be a slightly less rate-limited one for Hacker News users if you search around (I no longer remember what it is since I got my own key in the end.)

You can get your own API key for free by emailing, but that would not be anonymous, I guess.

I don't have curl syntax to hand, but hopefully it's easy to figure out from these documents. I may come back and edit later with curl syntax if I get time:

https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

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Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think by sylware on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:27PM (#47432681)

Thx! This is great news.

If their email server does handle self-hosted SMTP server with ip literal email addresses (with the ip from the SMTP, stronger than SPF), indeed, I will probably ask for my mine.

I wish major AI services would do the same or something close.

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