API Reference

v1.0.0 · updated from bundled OpenAPI

POST/desearch/ai/search/links/web

AI Web Search

This API allows users to search for links related to a given query (prompt) using multiple tools, excluding X (Twitter) Search. The API returns a list of relevant sources from selected platforms such as web pages, YouTube, Wikipedia, and ArXiv. Billing metadata: successful billable responses include the `X-Desearch-Cost-Usd`, `X-Desearch-Usage-Count`, `X-Desearch-Service`, and `X-Desearch-Currency` headers. JSON object responses also include optional `cost_usd`, `usage_count`, `service`, and `currency` fields. For example, `usage_count=10` at `$0.015 / 1,000` resolves to `cost_usd=0.00015`. JSON arrays, text, and streaming responses keep their body shape and expose billing metadata only through headers.

Base URL

https://api.desearch.ai

Implementation guidance

Use AI Web Search when your application needs live web resultswithout maintaining its own crawler, social-data pipeline, or retrieval infrastructure. The endpoint returns structured data that can be consumed by agents, research tools, dashboards, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows. Keep the request focused on the minimum fields your workflow needs so responses remain fast and easy to validate.

Send requests to POST /desearch/ai/search/links/web with your Desearch API key in the authorization header. Treat the key as a server-side secret, validate all required parameters before sending the request, and handle non-2xx responses explicitly. Production integrations should use sensible timeouts, retry only transient failures with backoff, and record the response status and request identifier for troubleshooting.

Test the example request below before integrating it into a larger workflow. Confirm that the returned fields, links, and timestamps meet your freshness requirements, then add schema validation at the application boundary. For agentic systems, preserve source URLs with the generated answer so users can inspect evidence and your application can avoid presenting unsupported claims.

Body Parameters

promptstringrequired

Search query prompt

toolsarrayrequired

List of tools to search with

countstring

The number of results to return per source. Min 10. Max 200.

Default: 10

Responses

200A JSON object mapping tool names to their search results.

301Moved Permanently

304Not Modified

401Unauthorized

422Validation Error

429Too Many Requests

500Internal Server Error

Authorization

Your API key is sent in the Authorization header.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.desearch.ai/desearch/ai/search/links/web" \
  -H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "prompt": "What are the recent sport events?",
  "tools": [
    "web",
    "hackernews",
    "reddit",
    "wikipedia",
    "youtube",
    "arxiv"
  ]
}'

ResponseSchema

{
  "youtube_search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "hacker_news_search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "reddit_search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "arxiv_search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia_search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "search_results": [
    {
      "title": "Title",
      "snippet": "Snippet",
      "link": "https://example.com"
    }
  ]
}

Possible status codes:

200401422429500