Web Search Overview

Web Search gives your application live access to the web through one API: run real-time searches with structured, LLM-ready results, retrieve clean page content, or hand off an entire research question and get back a synthesized answer with citations. It is built as grounding for AI agents — every response is structured JSON ready to feed a model as tool output.

What You Can Do

Capability	Endpoint	Returns
Web Search	`POST /web_search`	Ranked results with titles, descriptions, and snippets
Content Retrieval	`POST /web_search/contents`	Clean HTML or Markdown for up to 20 URLs per request
Research	`POST /web_search/research`	A synthesized answer with citations, synchronous or background

Next Steps

Get Started

First search to synthesized answer in a few minutes.

Web Search

Domain filters, freshness, and live crawling.

Content Retrieval

Formats, caching, and per-URL behavior.

Research

Synchronous vs background mode, polling, and the task lifecycle.

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Web Search

Features

API Reference

For AI Agents

Web Search Overview

What You Can Do

Next Steps

Get Started

Web Search

Content Retrieval

Research

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Get Started

Web Search

Content Retrieval

Research

What You Can Do

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