nc://flashdata

FlashData: Google web, news, image, shopping, places and video search plus YouTube research, through your own FlashData key. A Nodecode rewrite of rocosen/flashdata-mcp by rocosen.

The model gets three tools: flashdata_search for the six Google verticals, flashdata_youtube for search, metadata, transcript, captions, channel, suggestions and the Creative Commons label, and flashdata_call for any of the server's eighteen operations by name. Every one is also a verb in the flashdata package, callable from eval, and /flashdata QUERY is the operator's own search. (help :flashdata) is the model's page.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the flashdata cell", or run nodecode add nc://flashdata.

Set it up

Make a key at flashdata.dev/app/api-keys and put it in the cell's section — /settings, the Settings tab, or config.example.jsonc — or export FLASHDATA_API_KEY. Installation is free; every data query spends that account's paid FlashData Credits, and (flashdata:pricing "google_search") reads a rate without spending one.

"flashdata": { "api_key": "...", "timeout_seconds": 60, "max_items": 10, "max_chars": 6000 }

A section with no key refuses to start and names the variable. Nothing here is a Nodecode key: it is yours, and it never appears in an answer the model reads.

Use it

Ask for what you want:

Search Google for battery recycling research in the US, in English, ten results, as a table of position, title, url and snippet.

What does the video dQw4w9WgXcQ say? Give me the transcript with timestamps.

From eval, one verb per operation — (flashdata:search "battery recycling" :num 10), (flashdata:news "..."), (flashdata:images "..."), (flashdata:shopping "..."), (flashdata:places "..."), (flashdata:videos "..."), (flashdata:youtube-search "..."), (flashdata:transcript "dQw4w9WgXcQ"), (flashdata:channel "@NASA"), (flashdata:pricing "google_news") — and (flashdata:call "youtube_download" '(("video_id" . "..."))) for an operation without a verb. Add :full t when a long answer is cut.

Asynchronous answers carry a job_id (flashdata:job), chunked ones a result_id and next_offset (flashdata:result). A snippet is not the page, a price is a snapshot, and a Creative Commons label is not a grant of rights.