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Exa

AI search API for web search, content retrieval, crawling, and structured results from online sources.

Designed for web discovery workflows that search pages, retrieve page contents, find similar links, and answer questions from online sources.

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Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use Exa when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

Create a Monitor

Tool to create a new Monitor. Use when you need to schedule automated updates for a Webset without manual runs.

Create Import

Tool to create a new import to upload data into a Webset. Use when you need to initialize an import before uploading the data file.

Create Research Task

Creates an asynchronous research task that explores the web, gathers sources, synthesizes findings, and returns results with citations. The API responds immediately with a researchId for polling completion status. Use this when you need to generate: 1. Structured JSON matching an outputSchema you provide 2. A detailed markdown report when no schema is provided After creation, poll the research task status using the researchId to retrieve the final results when completed.

Create Webset

Tool to create a new Webset with search, import, and enrichment setup. Use when you need to configure and seed a Webset in one call.

Delete import

Tool to delete an existing import. Use when you need to permanently remove an import by its ID.

Delete webset

Tool to delete a Webset. Use after confirming the Webset ID to permanently remove the Webset and all its items.

Find similar

Finds web pages semantically similar to a given URL using embeddings-based search, optionally retrieving full text, highlights, or summaries for results.

Generate an answer

Generates a direct, citation-backed answer to a clear natural language question or topic using Exa's search, adept at both specific answers and detailed summaries for open-ended queries. Response contains an `answer` field (summary) and a `citations` field (supporting URLs). Citations may include low-credibility sources; verify authoritative references for factual use.

Get API Key

Tool to retrieve details of a specific API key by its ID. Use when you need to fetch information about an API key in the team management context.

Get contents from URLs or document IDs

Retrieves configurable text and highlights from a list of Exa document IDs or publicly accessible URLs. Calls may partially succeed — always inspect the per-item `statuses` array for errors like CRAWL_NOT_FOUND, CRAWL_LIVECRAWL_TIMEOUT, CRAWL_UNKNOWN_ERROR, or SOURCE_NOT_AVAILABLE. Retrieved text is nested under `results