API & MCP

Everything a person can do on Word Search Maker (Any Language), a program or AI agent can do with the same inputs and get the identical result.

HTTP API

POST https://printshopwordsearch.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate – run Word Search Maker (Any Language)
GET https://printshopwordsearch.usefulweb.app/api/v1/tool – inputs, output schema, examples
OpenAPI 3.1: /openapi.json · /openapi.yaml
Errors: application/problem+json; 422 includes per-field errors.

Word Search Maker (Any Language)

Turn your own word list into a printable word search: grid size automatic or fixed, diagonal and backwards words optional, shared letters allowed or not. Works letter by letter in every script — accents, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, Chinese and right-to-left Arabic — and adds an answer key with every word circled.

Inputs of Word Search Maker (Any Language)
Field	Type	Default	Description
`words`	textarea	"Planet\nComet\nGalaxy\nOrbit\nRocket\nMeteor\nNebula\nGravity\nTelescope\nAstro	Words. One word per line or separated by commas. Spaces and hyphens are dropped in the grid. Up to 60 words.
`size`	integer	0	Grid size (0 = automatic)
`diagonal`	boolean	true	Diagonal words
`backwards`	boolean	false	Backwards words
`overlap`	boolean	true	Words may share letters
`uppercase`	boolean	true	Capital letters
`lang`	select (en, de, fr, es, it, pt, nl, pl, tr, ru, uk, ar, hi, zh, ja, ko, id)	"en"	Language (for capital letters)
`seed`	text	"words-1"	Seed. The same seed and settings always give the same puzzles. Change it for new ones.
`title`	text	—	Title on the page (optional)
`answers`	boolean	true	Answer-key pages
`header`	boolean	true	Name and date line
`paper`	select (a3, a4, a5, a6, b5, letter, legal, tabloid, halfletter)	"a4"	Paper size
`orientation`	select (portrait, landscape)	"portrait"	Orientation

Example request

Space words with diagonals

curl -X POST https://printshopwordsearch.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"seed":"space-1"}'

Every result contains

inputs (normalised, defaults applied), summary, result (validated against the published schema), units, assumptions, sources, warnings, computedAt and links.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Streamable HTTP endpoint: https://printshopwordsearch.usefulweb.app/mcp – protocol revisions 2026-07-28 (stateless) and 2025-11-25 / 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 (initialize handshake).
Tools: printshop_word_search
Local stdio connector: node src/mcp-stdio.ts --tool=printshop-word-search

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "printshop-word-search": { "type": "http", "url": "https://printshopwordsearch.usefulweb.app/mcp" }
  }
}