5 minutes
Quick Start Guide
Get up and running with SearchHive APIs in under 5 minutes. From API key generation to your first successful request.
What you'll learn
How to authenticate, make your first API call, and start building with our three core APIs: SwiftSearch, ScrapeForge, and DeepDive.
1
Get Your API Key
Create Account & Generate Key
Sign up at searchhive.com/signup (takes 30 seconds)
Navigate to your dashboard
Click "Generate API Key" → Copy your key (starts with
sk_live_)You get
5,000 free credits
to startKeep your API key secure
Never expose your API key in client-side code. Store it as an environment variable and use it only in your backend services.
2
Authentication
All API requests require authentication using your API key in the request header.
Header Format
Required Authentication Header
cURL
Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_hereAlternative header formats
You can also use
Authorization: Bearer your_key_here if your HTTP client doesn't support custom headers easily.3
Your First API Call
Let's start with SwiftSearch - our real-time web search API.
POST
https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/swiftsearchSearch the web in real-time and get structured results
Search the web for current information
# Replace with your actual API key from the dashboard
API_KEY="sk_live_your_key_here"
curl -X POST https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/swiftsearch -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"query": "latest AI developments 2025",
"max_results": 5
}' | jq '.'Expected Response:
{
"query": "latest AI developments 2025",
"search_results": [
{
"title": "AI Breakthrough: New Language Model Achieves Human-Level Reasoning",
"link": "https://example.com/ai-news",
"snippet": "Researchers announce significant advancement in AI reasoning capabilities...",
"position": 1,
"date": "2025-07-20"
}
],
"credits_used": 1,
"remaining_credits": 4999,
"results_count": 5
}4
Try Our Other APIs
ScrapeForge - Web Scraping
POST
https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/scrapeforgeExtract content from any webpage, bypass protections
Scrape webpage content
curl -X POST https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/scrapeforge -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com/article",
"extract_options": ["title", "text", "metadata"]
}' | jq '.primary_content.title'DeepDive - AI Research
POST
https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/deepdiveAI-powered research across multiple sources with summarization
Research a topic across multiple sources
curl -X POST https://www.searchhive.dev/api/v1/deepdive \
-H "Authorization": "Bearer: $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"topic": "renewable energy trends 2025",
"max_sources": 5
}' | jq '.sources_analyzed'5