Ferret — Quick Start

Get started in 3 minutes. See API Reference for the full reference.

1. Start the server

cd ferret
cargo build --release
./target/release/ferret serve

The API is available at http://localhost:9093.

2. Try it

# Search
curl "http://localhost:9093/search/bing?q=web+scraping"

# Multi-engine research
curl -X POST http://localhost:9093/research \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "AI developments 2026"}'

# Extract a URL
curl "http://localhost:9093/extract?q=https://example.com"

# Map a domain
curl "http://localhost:9093/map?q=https://example.com"

3. Python (3 lines)

import requests
r = requests.get("http://localhost:9093/search/bing?q=web+scraping")
print(r.json())

4. MCP (Cursor / Claude)

See MCP Server for config examples.

5. Documentation

Page	Description
API Reference	Full API reference
MCP Server	MCP server config
LangChain	LangChain integration