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title: SpecStream API glossary
description: The words the SpecStream API uses.
url: https://api.specstream.ai/glossary.md
lastUpdated: 2026-11-13
last_updated: 2026-11-13
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# SpecStream API glossary

- **Search**: one call to `GET /v1/web-search`. It returns up to 10 results from the live web, each with a title, a URL and a snippet.
- **Fast tier**: a search with `speed=fast`. It answers sooner and costs $1 per 1,000 searches.
- **Extract**: one call to `POST /v1/extract`. It returns the main text of up to 20 pages or files.
- **Drop-in address**: an address on this host that answers in another search API's request and reply shape.
- **Deep Search**: a request in plain words that returns every match as rows.
- **Row**: one match, with the facts asked for. Every value has a source link.
- **Source link**: the URL of the page a value was read from.
- **Quote**: the maximum price of a request, shown before any work runs.
- **Key**: a SpecStream API key, sent as a Bearer token. It has scopes and a spending limit.
- **Scope**: what a key may do, for example `finds:spend`.
- **MCP**: the Model Context Protocol. The endpoint is `/mcp`.
- **A2A**: the Agent2Agent protocol. The endpoint is `/a2a`.

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