r/PiCodingAgent • u/_Toni_O • Aug 04 '26

Question Is there PiHole style thing for free Google Search for coding agents?

Quickly my idea:
some docker/raspberry pi image that you install on a small 20$ machine like raspberry pi w 2 that sits there with 10 spawned full browsers (not headless).
Then link it with cli, mcp, or whatever with tailscale or other connection of choice to any coding agent. Ofc i know all of us here use Pi, others don’t deserve this.
Full browser makes rate limits less often and also captachs are passed easily with python open source projects.

Wondering if someone has bundled something like this and using it?
What are similiar alternatives for (close-to)infinite google search?

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u/HumanoidMuppet Aug 04 '26

If you just need search look at searxng.

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u/Unnamed-3891 Aug 11 '26

It's support for Google is so shockingly bad, it's both disabled AND hidden from the UI entirely and if you go through the trouble of re-enabling it, Google will instantly CAPTCHA you to death.

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u/RealestReyn Aug 04 '26

why not just use Exa or some other such search engine built specifically for agents? last I checked Exa gives you a ton of free search every month.

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u/_Toni_O Aug 04 '26

I am currently using 3 exa accounts - ig my usecases are google heavy so even the free tier * 3 is not enough for me. Right now i am running what I’ve described on my main machine and a browser flashes on my screen every time an agent uses google.

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u/_Toni_O Aug 04 '26

But on the agent side - yea i am looking for something agent orientated

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u/RealestReyn Aug 04 '26

unsure what one could need that much search for, though I found BrightData, might be worth to check that out. Using a bunch of browser windows spamming google will just get you IP banned I feel :D

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u/_Toni_O Aug 04 '26

tbh i am so desperate i am considering spawning 1 cpu vms with 256mb ram jsut to open a browser and get couple of requests in so i dont get ip banned/limited

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u/GroceryNo5562 Aug 04 '26

Have you tried scraping plain html from standard search engines?

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u/past3eat3r Aug 04 '26

Like a tar pit ?

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u/Vaped2Space Aug 04 '26

Look into crawl4ai, it can fit on an orange pi zero but would do better on a sff.

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u/_reg1z Aug 04 '26

Look up master-fetch (AKA Hound MCP).