ODEN crawls, so you don't have to.

What you are searching

This interactive terminal queries the ODEN web index directly — the same crawled corpus, page titles, and ranked passages that the ODEN search API delivers to language models and autonomous agents. It operates in index_only mode, allowing you to test keyword match quality, domain discovery, and citation relevance in real time without triggering the generative answer-synthesis pipeline. No account or API key is required to explore this live index.

How the interactive tester differs from the API

While this web interface returns pure ranked document citations from our crawl index, the production API endpoint incorporates several powerful neural post-processing stages:

  • Generative Answer Synthesis: A distilled, natural-language factual summary constructed exclusively from the retrieved sources, minimizing prompt token consumption for downstream LLMs.
  • Structured Citation Anchors: Precise citation attribution linking each factual claim to specific source URLs, complete with confidence relevance scores between 0.0 and 1.0.
  • On-Demand Deep Retrieval: When queries target real-time events, specialized technical documentation, or fresh breaking developments not yet cached in the index, the API automatically triggers live edge fetching to read and extract source pages dynamically.
  • Configurable Context Depth: Developers can fine-tune query depth, result cardinality, and token limits directly via API request parameters.

Production API integration

Integrating ODEN into your application requires a single HTTP POST request. Responses are formatted in clean, predictable JSON ready for immediate consumption by OpenAI function calling, Claude tool use, or custom LangChain and LlamaIndex agents. Every HTTP response provides standardized telemetry headers including x-request-id and measured server execution latency.

curl https://api.oden-api.com/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ODEN_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "latest developments in solid state battery tech"}'

Supported query operators & filtering

The ODEN search engine supports advanced programmatic query operators for high-precision agent retrieval:

  • site:domain.com — Restrict candidate search results strictly to a single authoritative host or subdomain.
  • "exact phrase" — Enforce contiguous keyword matching for technical terms, API names, error codes, and legal clauses.
  • -term — Exclude specific keywords or domains from result candidates to eliminate off-topic noise.
  • AND / OR — Combine multi-concept research prompts with deterministic Boolean set logic.

In addition to standard keyword matching, the retrieval engine applies automated canonical link normalization, multilingual character decoding, and domain authority weighting. This ensures that duplicate web mirrors and content aggregators are de-duplicated before results reach your agent's context window.

Latency & retrieval performance architecture

Search latency varies predictably depending on query cache status and required retrieval depth:

Cached index queries and frequently referenced web documents return in milliseconds from our European edge network. In contrast, deep real-time research queries that require on-demand crawling of live remote origins take a few seconds while OdenBot resolves DNS, negotiates TLS handshakes, validates robots.txt policies, and sanitizes HTML payloads. We deliberately avoid making unrealistic "sub-second" claims for live internet crawls, ensuring that our technical specifications remain grounded and transparent.

Ethical crawling and webmaster compliance

Every URL returned in this index is fetched by OdenBot, our respectful web crawler. ODEN strictly adheres to the modern web standards ecosystem:

  • Robots.txt & Crawl-Delay: Directives are fetched per host, cached with a 24-hour TTL, and strictly honored before any page is retrieved.
  • EU DSM Article 4 (TDM Opt-Out): Machine-readable rights reservations, including tdm-reservation and X-Robots-Tag: noai headers, are inspected and obeyed at the source.
  • Purpose-limited processing: Search queries are not used to train a public foundation model or sold for third-party advertising profiles. See the privacy policy for operational handling details.

Next steps and documentation

To start integrating ODEN into your AI agent or RAG application, follow our five-minute quickstart guide, review head-to-head performance benchmarks against Tavily, SerpAPI, and the Brave Search API, or inspect our simple, flat pricing plans. Every free tier account includes 1,000 complimentary searches every month with zero card required.