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Exa Contents API

The Contents API from Exa — 1 operation(s) for contents.

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exa-ai-contents-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Exa Agent Contents API
  version: 2.0.0
  description: Exa Agent API - subset of the Exa Public API.
servers:
- url: https://api.exa.ai
security:
- apiKey: []
- bearer: []
tags:
- name: Contents
paths:
  /contents:
    post:
      operationId: getContents
      summary: Contents
      x-codeSamples:
      - lang: bash
        label: Simple contents retrieval
        source: "curl -X POST 'https://api.exa.ai/contents' \\\n  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR-EXA-API-KEY' \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\n    \"urls\": [\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    \"text\": true\n  }'"
      - lang: python
        label: Simple contents retrieval
        source: "# pip install exa-py\nfrom exa_py import Exa\nexa = Exa(api_key='YOUR_EXA_API_KEY')\n\nresults = exa.get_contents(\n    urls=[\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    text=True\n)\n\nprint(results)"
      - lang: javascript
        label: Simple contents retrieval
        source: "// npm install exa-js\nimport Exa from 'exa-js';\nconst exa = new Exa('YOUR_EXA_API_KEY');\n\nconst results = await exa.getContents(\n    [\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    { text: true }\n);\n\nconsole.log(results);"
      - lang: bash
        label: Advanced contents retrieval
        source: "curl --request POST \\\n  --url https://api.exa.ai/contents \\\n  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR-EXA-API-KEY' \\\n  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  --data '{\n    \"urls\": [\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    \"text\": {\n      \"maxCharacters\": 1000,\n      \"includeHtmlTags\": false\n    },\n    \"highlights\": {\n      \"query\": \"Key findings\"\n    },\n    \"summary\": {\n      \"query\": \"Main research contributions\"\n    },\n    \"subpages\": 1,\n    \"subpageTarget\": \"references\",\n    \"extras\": {\n      \"links\": 2,\n      \"imageLinks\": 1\n    }\n  }'"
      - lang: python
        label: Advanced contents retrieval
        source: "# pip install exa-py\nfrom exa_py import Exa\nexa = Exa(api_key='YOUR_EXA_API_KEY')\n\nresults = exa.get_contents(\n    urls=[\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    text={\n        \"maxCharacters\": 1000,\n        \"includeHtmlTags\": False\n    },\n    highlights={\n        \"query\": \"Key findings\"\n    },\n    summary={\n        \"query\": \"Main research contributions\"\n    },\n    subpages=1,\n    subpage_target=\"references\",\n    extras={\n        \"links\": 2,\n        \"image_links\": 1\n    }\n)\n\nprint(results)"
      - lang: javascript
        label: Advanced contents retrieval
        source: "// npm install exa-js\nimport Exa from 'exa-js';\nconst exa = new Exa('YOUR_EXA_API_KEY');\n\nconst results = await exa.getContents(\n    [\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435\"],\n    {\n        text: {\n            maxCharacters: 1000,\n            includeHtmlTags: false\n        },\n        highlights: {\n            query: \"Key findings\"\n        },\n        summary: {\n            query: \"Main research contributions\"\n        },\n        subpages: 1,\n        subpageTarget: \"references\",\n        extras: {\n            links: 2,\n            imageLinks: 1\n        }\n    }\n);\n\nconsole.log(results);"
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentsRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                requestId: e492118ccdedcba5088bfc4357a8a125
                results:
                - title: A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models
                  url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf
                  publishedDate: '2023-11-16T01:36:32.547Z'
                  author: Humza  Naveed, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan
                  id: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435
                  image: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf/page_1.png
                  favicon: https://arxiv.org/favicon.ico
                  text: Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities...
                  highlights:
                  - Such requirements have limited their adoption...
                  highlightScores:
                  - 0.4600165784358978
                  summary: This overview paper on Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights key developments...
                  subpages:
                  - id: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580
                    url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17580.pdf
                    title: 'HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face'
                    author: Yongliang  Shen, Microsoft Research Asia, Kaitao  Song, Microsoft Research Asia, Xu  Tan, Microsoft Research Asia, Dongsheng  Li, Microsoft Research Asia, Weiming  Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, Yueting  Zhuang, Microsoft Research Asia, yzhuang@zju.edu.cn, Zhejiang  University, Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft  Research, Microsoft Research Asia
                    publishedDate: '2023-11-16T01:36:20.486Z'
                    text: 'HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face Date Published: 2023-05-25 Authors: Yongliang Shen, Microsoft Research Asia Kaitao Song, Microsoft Research Asia Xu Tan, Microsoft Research Asia Dongsheng Li, Microsoft Research Asia Weiming Lu, Microsoft Research Asia Yueting Zhuang, Microsoft Research Asia, yzhuang@zju.edu.cn Zhejiang University, Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Asia Abstract Solving complicated AI tasks with different domains and modalities is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. While there are abundant AI models available for different domains and modalities, they cannot handle complicated AI tasks. Considering large language models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional ability in language understanding, generation, interaction, and reasoning, we advocate that LLMs could act as a controller to manage existing AI models to solve complicated AI tasks and language could be a generic interface to empower t'
                    summary: HuggingGPT is a framework using ChatGPT as a central controller to orchestrate various AI models from Hugging Face to solve complex tasks. ChatGPT plans the task, selects appropriate models based on their descriptions, executes subtasks, and summarizes the results. This approach addresses limitations of LLMs by allowing them to handle multimodal data (vision, speech) and coordinate multiple models for complex tasks, paving the way for more advanced AI systems.
                    highlights:
                    - 2) Recently, some researchers started to investigate the integration of using tools or models in LLMs  .
                    highlightScores:
                    - 0.32679107785224915
                  extras:
                    links: []
                context: <string>
                statuses:
                - id: https://example.com
                  status: success
                  source: cached
                costDollars:
                  total: 0.007
                  search:
                    neural: 0.007
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentsResponse'
      tags:
      - Contents
components:
  schemas:
    CostDollarsOutput:
      type: object
      properties:
        total:
          description: Estimated total dollar cost for the completed request. This response value is not an invoice record.
          example: 0.007
          format: float
          type: number
        search:
          description: Endpoint-dependent estimated search cost breakdown by retrieval mode. Instant, fast, and auto search responses may include neural search cost. Deep search modes may be reflected only in total.
          type: object
          properties:
            neural:
              description: Cost of neural search operations.
              example: 0.007
              format: float
              type: number
          additionalProperties: false
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Endpoint-dependent estimated dollar cost breakdown for the completed request. Billing is computed from usage counters rather than this response object.
    ContentsResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        requestId:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the request.
          example: b5947044c4b78efa9552a7c89b306d95
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResultOutput'
        context:
          type: string
          description: Deprecated. Combined context string from search results. Use highlights or text instead.
          deprecated: true
        statuses:
          description: Status information for each requested URL or document ID.
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              id:
                type: string
                description: The URL or document ID that was requested.
                example: https://example.com
              status:
                type: string
                enum:
                - success
                - error
                description: Status of the content fetch operation.
                example: success
              source:
                description: Where the returned content was sourced from.
                type: string
                enum:
                - cached
                - crawled
              error:
                anyOf:
                - type: object
                  properties:
                    tag:
                      description: Specific error type.
                      example: CRAWL_NOT_FOUND
                      type: string
                    httpStatusCode:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: integer
                        minimum: 100
                        maximum: 599
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: The corresponding HTTP status code.
                      example: 404
                  additionalProperties: false
                - type: 'null'
                description: Error details, only present when status is "error".
            required:
            - id
            - status
            additionalProperties: false
        costDollars:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostDollarsOutput'
      additionalProperties: false
    ContentsOptions:
      type: object
      properties:
        text:
          anyOf:
          - description: Text extraction options for each result.
            oneOf:
            - type: boolean
              title: Simple text retrieval
              description: If true, returns full page text with default settings. If false, disables text return.
              default: false
            - type: object
              properties:
                maxCharacters:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: integer
                    minimum: 1
                    maximum: 10000
                    description: Maximum character limit for the full page text. Useful for controlling response size and API costs. Maximum supported value is 10000.
                    example: 1000
                  - type: 'null'
                includeHtmlTags:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: boolean
                    description: 'If true, include lightweight HTML tags in returned text instead of plain markdown-style text. Use maxAgeHours: 0 when you need this applied to freshly fetched content.'
                    example: false
                    default: false
                  - type: 'null'
                verbosity:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: string
                    enum:
                    - compact
                    - standard
                    - full
                    description: 'Controls text rendering verbosity. compact focuses on main content, standard includes more surrounding page context, and full requests the most complete rendered text. Some pages may produce identical standard and full output. Use maxAgeHours: 0 when you need this applied to freshly fetched content.'
                    example: standard
                    default: compact
                  - type: 'null'
                includeSections:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
                      enum:
                      - header
                      - navigation
                      - banner
                      - body
                      - sidebar
                      - footer
                      - metadata
                    description: 'Best-effort. Only include content classified into these semantic page sections. Section classification may be unavailable or incomplete for some pages; validate output if strict filtering is required. Use maxAgeHours: 0 when you need this applied to freshly fetched content.'
                    example:
                    - body
                    - header
                  - type: 'null'
                excludeSections:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
                      enum:
                      - header
                      - navigation
                      - banner
                      - body
                      - sidebar
                      - footer
                      - metadata
                    description: 'Exclude content classified into these semantic page sections. Section classification is best-effort. Use maxAgeHours: 0 when you need this applied to freshly fetched content.'
                    example:
                    - navigation
                    - footer
                    - sidebar
                  - type: 'null'
              title: Advanced text options
              description: Advanced options for controlling text extraction. Use this when you need to limit text length or include HTML structure.
          - type: 'null'
        highlights:
          anyOf:
          - description: Text snippets the LLM identifies as most relevant from each page.
            oneOf:
            - type: boolean
              title: Simple highlights retrieval
              description: If true, returns highlights with default settings. If false, disables highlights.
              default: false
            - type: object
              properties:
                query:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: string
                    description: Custom query that guides which highlights the LLM picks.
                    example: Key advancements
                  - type: 'null'
                maxCharacters:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: integer
                    minimum: 1
                    maximum: 10000
                    description: Maximum number of characters to return for highlights. Controls the total length of highlight text returned per URL. Maximum supported value is 10000.
                    example: 2000
                  - type: 'null'
                numSentences:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: integer
                    minimum: 1
                    description: 'Deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Currently mapped to a character budget of about 1333 characters per sentence. Pass highlights: true for default highlights, or { query } to guide selection with your own query.'
                    example: 1
                    deprecated: true
                  - type: 'null'
                highlightsPerUrl:
                  anyOf:
                  - type: integer
                    minimum: 1
                    description: 'Deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Currently ignored. Pass highlights: true for default highlights, or { query } to guide selection with your own query.'
                    example: 1
                    deprecated: true
                  - type: 'null'
              title: Advanced highlights options
              description: 'Advanced options for steering highlight extraction. Pass highlights: true for the highest-quality default; supply this object only when you need to guide selection with your own query.'
          - type: 'null'
        summary:
          anyOf:
          - type: object
            properties:
              query:
                anyOf:
                - type: string
                  description: Custom query for the LLM-generated summary.
                  example: Main developments
                - type: 'null'
              schema:
                anyOf:
                - type: object
                  propertyNames:
                    type: string
                  additionalProperties:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonValue'
                  description: JSON schema for structured output from summary. See https://json-schema.org/overview/what-is-jsonschema for JSON Schema documentation.
                  example:
                    $schema: http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#
                    title: Title
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      Property 1:
                        type: string
                        description: Description
                      Property 2:
                        type: string
                        enum:
                        - option 1
                        - option 2
                        - option 3
                        description: Description
                    required:
                    - Property 1
                - type: 'null'
            description: Summary of the webpage.
          - type: 'null'
        extras:
          anyOf:
          - type: object
            properties:
              links:
                anyOf:
                - type: integer
                  minimum: 0
                  maximum: 1000
                  description: Number of URLs to return from each webpage.
                  example: 1
                  default: 0
                - type: 'null'
              imageLinks:
                anyOf:
                - type: integer
                  minimum: 0
                  maximum: 1000
                  description: Number of images to return for each result.
                  example: 1
                  default: 0
                - type: 'null'
              richImageLinks:
                anyOf:
                - type: integer
                  minimum: 0
                  maximum: 1000
                  description: Number of rich image links to return for each result.
                  default: 0
                - type: 'null'
              richLinks:
                anyOf:
                - type: integer
                  minimum: 0
                  maximum: 1000
                  description: Number of rich links to return for each result.
                  default: 0
                - type: 'null'
              codeBlocks:
                anyOf:
                - type: integer
                  minimum: 0
                  maximum: 1000
                  description: Number of code blocks to return for each result.
                  default: 0
                - type: 'null'
            description: Extra parameters to pass.
          - type: 'null'
        context:
          anyOf:
          - description: 'Deprecated: Use highlights or text instead. Returns page contents as a combined context string.'
            deprecated: true
            oneOf:
            - type: boolean
              description: 'Deprecated: Use highlights or text instead. Returns page contents as a combined context string.'
              example: true
              deprecated: true
            - type: object
              properties:
                maxCharacters:
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 1
                  maximum: 10000
                  description: Deprecated. Maximum character limit for the context string. Maximum supported value is 10000.
                  example: 10000
              description: 'Deprecated: Use highlights or text instead. Returns page contents as a combined context string.'
              deprecated: true
          - type: 'null'
        livecrawl:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
            enum:
            - never
            - always
            - fallback
            - preferred
            description: 'Deprecated: Use maxAgeHours instead for content freshness control. livecrawl does not guarantee freshly fetched parser output and may be served according to server freshness policy. Do not send livecrawl and maxAgeHours together.'
            example: preferred
            deprecated: true
          - type: 'null'
        livecrawlTimeout:
          anyOf:
          - type: integer
            exclusiveMinimum: 0
            maximum: 90000
            description: The timeout for livecrawling in milliseconds.
            example: 1000
            default: 10000
          - type: 'null'
        maxAgeHours:
          anyOf:
          - type: integer
            minimum: -1
            maximum: 720
            description: Maximum age of cached content in hours. Positive values use cached content if it is less than this many hours old; 0 fetches fresh content and is the supported way to apply text rendering options to newly fetched pages; -1 always uses cache; omitted uses fallback fetching when cached content is unavailable. Maximum supported value is 720 hours.
            example: 24
          - type: 'null'
        subpages:
          anyOf:
          - type: integer
            minimum: 0
            maximum: 100
            description: The number of subpages to crawl. The actual number crawled may be limited by system constraints.
            example: 1
            default: 0
          - type: 'null'
        subpageTarget:
          anyOf:
          - description: Term to find specific subpages of search results. Can be a single string or an array of strings.
            example: sources
            oneOf:
            - type: string
              minLength: 1
              maxLength: 100
            - minItems: 0
              maxItems: 100
              type: array
              items:
                type: string
                minLength: 1
                maxLength: 100
          - type: 'null'
    SearchResultOutput:
      type: object
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: The title of the search result.
          example: A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models
        url:
          type: string
          description: The URL of the search result.
          example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf
          format: uri
        publishedDate:
          description: An estimate of the creation date, from parsing HTML content. Format is YYYY-MM-DD.
          example: '2023-11-16T01:36:32.547Z'
          format: date-time
          type: string
        author:
          description: If available, the author of the content.
          example: Humza Naveed
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
        id:
          description: The temporary ID for the document. Useful for the /contents endpoint.
          example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435
          type: string
        image:
          description: The URL of an image associated with the search result, if available.
          example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf/page_1.png
          format: uri
          type: string
        favicon:
          description: The URL of the favicon for the search result's domain.
          example: https://arxiv.org/favicon.ico
          format: uri
          type: string
        text:
          description: The full content text of the search result.
          example: Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities...
          type: string
        highlights:
          description: Array of highlights extracted from the search result content.
          example:
          - Such requirements have limited their adoption...
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        highlightScores:
          description: Array of cosine similarity scores for each highlighted snippet.
          example:
          - 0.4600165784358978
          type: array
          items:
            type: number
            format: float
        summary:
          description: Summary of the webpage.
          example: This overview paper on Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights key developments...
          type: string
        subpages:
          description: Array of subpages for the search result.
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              title:
                type: string
                description: The title of the search result.
                example: A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models
              url:
                type: string
                description: The URL of the search result.
                example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf
                format: uri
              publishedDate:
                description: An estimate of the creation date, from parsing HTML content. Format is YYYY-MM-DD.
                example: '2023-11-16T01:36:32.547Z'
                format: date-time
                type: string
              author:
                description: If available, the author of the content.
                example: Humza Naveed
                anyOf:
                - type: string
                - type: 'null'
              id:
                description: The temporary ID for the document. Useful for the /contents endpoint.
                example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435
                type: string
              image:
                description: The URL of an image associated with the search result, if available.
                example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf/page_1.png
                format: uri
                type: string
              favicon:
                description: The URL of the favicon for the search result's domain.
                example: https://arxiv.org/favicon.ico
                format: uri
                type: string
            required:
            - title
            - url
            additionalProperties: false
        entities:
          description: Structured entity data for company or person search results. Only returned for category=company or category=people searches.
          type: array
          items:
            oneOf:
            - type: object
              properties:
                id:
                  type: string
                  description: Stable company entity identifier.
                type:
                  type: string
                  const: company
                  description: Entity discriminator.
                version:
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 1
                  description: Entity schema version.
                properties:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    name:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: string
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Company name.
                    foundedYear:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: integer
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Year the company was founded.
                    description:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: string
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Short company description.
                    workforce:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          total:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: number
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Total estimated employee count.
                        required:
                        - total
                        additionalProperties: false
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Company workforce information.
                    headquarters:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          address:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: string
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Company headquarters street address.
                          city:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: string
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Company headquarters city.
                          postalCode:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: string
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Company headquarters postal code.
                          country:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: string
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Company headquarters country.
                        required:
                        - address
                        - city
                        - postalCode
                        - country
                        additionalProperties: false
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Company headquarters information.
                    financials:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          revenueAnnual:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: number
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Estimated annual revenue in USD.
                          fundingTotal:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: number
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Total funding raised in USD.
                          fundingLatestRound:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: object
                              properties:
                                name:
                                  anyOf:
                                  - type: string
                                  - type: 'null'
                                  description: Funding round name.
                                date:
                                  anyOf:
                                  - type: string
                                  - type: 'null'
                                  description: Funding round date.
                                amount:
                                  anyOf:
                                  - type: number
                                  - type: 'null'
                                  description: Funding round amount in USD.
                              required:
                              - name
                              - date
                              - amount
                              additionalProperties: false
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Most recent funding round, when available.
                        required:
                        - revenueAnnual
                        - fundingTotal
                        - fundingLatestRound
                        additionalProperties: false
                      - type: 'null'
                      description: Company financial information.
                    webTraffic:
                      anyOf:
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          visitsMonthly:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: number
                            - type: 'null'
                            description: Estimated monthly website visits.
                          countryRank:
                            anyOf:
                            - type: integer
                            - 

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