POST/search

Search API

Search the web and return ranked pages, each with the passage that best matches the query. Billing metadata: responses include `cost_usd`, `usage_count`, `service`, and `currency` fields in the JSON body.

Base URL

https://api.desearch.ai

Implementation guidance

Use Search API when your application needs search-grounded AI 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 /search 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

querystringrequired

Search query.

modestring

`fast` returns results sooner. `balanced` favors relevance.

Default: balanced

countinteger

Number of results to return: 10, 15 or 20.

Default: 10

start_datestring

Only return pages published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

end_datestring

Only return pages published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

highlightsboolean

Include the passage that best matches the query.

Default: true

page_textboolean

Include the full page text.

Default: false

Responses

200Ranked results and the cost of the request.

400Invalid JSON body

401Unauthorized

422Validation Error

429Too Many Requests

500Internal Server Error

503Search unavailable

Authorization

Your API key is sent in the Authorization header.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.desearch.ai/search" \
  -H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

ResponseSchema

{
  "results": [
    {
      "url": "Url",
      "title": "Title",
      "published_date": "string",
      "highlights": [
        "string"
      ],
      "page_text": "string"
    }
  ],
  "cost_usd": 0,
  "usage_count": 0,
  "service": "Service",
  "currency": "Currency"
}

Possible status codes:

200401422429500