Introduction

DeepTap is a research API: search, extract, reason across the open web, with citations.

DeepTap is a four-endpoint research API:

• /v1/search for web search with freshness-aware decomposition
• /v1/extract for page-level text extraction with Trafilatura + Playwright fallback
• /v1/research for depth-2 and depth-3 reflective research with SSE streaming
• /v1/map for site discovery via robots.txt + sitemaps + BFS crawl

Every response carries citations. Every credit is reconciled against a Postgres ledger. Every extraction ships through a three-layer prompt injection firewall.

When to use DeepTap

• Your agent needs fresh, cited answers and you do not want to run the research loop yourself.
• You already use Tavily and want a drop-in replacement at equal or lower cost. Our compat shim at tavily-compat.deeptap.ai accepts the Tavily wire format.
• You want to stand up an MCP server for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor without writing a custom adapter.

Read next

• Quick start — send your first request in 60 seconds.
• Claude Desktop guide — drop DeepTap into Claude's MCP config.
• API reference — full schema.