Web Search Exa

Exa - Neural Web Search & Research

Setup

Read your credentials from ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json:

export GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json'))['api_key'])")
export GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json')).get('api_base','https://api.gooseworks.ai'))")

If ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json does not exist, tell the user to run: npx gooseworks login

All endpoints use Bearer auth: -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY"

Neural search engine for finding similar content, extracting pages, and deep research.

Capabilities

• Exa Research: Retrieve a paginated list of your research tasks
• Answer: Get an LLM answer to a question informed by Exa search results
• Search: The search endpoint lets you intelligently search the web and extract contents from the results
• Get a task: Retrieve the status and results of a previously created research task
• Find similar links: Find similar links to the link provided and optionally return the contents of the pages
• Create a task: Create an asynchronous research task that explores the web, gathers sources, synthesizes findings, and returns results with citations
• Get contents: Get the full page contents, summaries, and metadata for a list of URLs

Usage

Exa Research

Retrieve a paginated list of your research tasks. The response follows a cursor-based pagination pattern. Pass the limit parameter to control page size (max 50) and use the cursor token returned in the response to fetch subsequent pages.

Parameters:

• cursor (string) - The cursor to paginate through the results Minimum string length: 1
• limit (number) - Number of results per page (1-50) Required range: 1 <= x <= 50

curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"exa","path":"/research/v1"}'

Answer

Get an LLM answer to a question informed by Exa search results. /answer performs an Exa search and uses an LLM to generate either:

A direct answer for specific queries. (i.e.

Parameters:

• query* (string) - The question or query to answer.
• stream (boolean) - If true, the response is returned as a server-sent events (SSS) stream.
• text (boolean) - If true, the response includes full text content in the search results

curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"exa","path":"/answer","body":{"query":"What are the best practices for prompt engineering?"}}'

Search

The search endpoint lets you intelligently search the web and extract contents from the results.By default, it automatically chooses the best search method using Exa’s embeddings-based model and other techniques to find the most relevant results for your query.

Parameters:

• query* (string) - The query string for the search.
• additionalQueries (string[]) - Additional query variations for deep search. Only works with type="deep". When provided, these queries are used alongside the main query for comprehensive results.
• type (enum<string>) - The type of search. Neural uses an embeddings-based model, auto (default) intelligently combines neural and other search methods, fast uses streamlined versions of the search models, and deep provides comprehensive search with query expansion and detailed context.
• category (enum<string>) - A data category to focus on. The people and company categories have improved quality for finding LinkedIn profiles and company pages. Note: The company and people categories only support a limited set of filters. The following parameters are NOT supported for these categories: startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, startCrawlDate, endCrawlDate, includeText, excludeText, excludeDomains. For people category, includeDomains only accepts LinkedIn domains. Using unsupported parameters will result in a 400 error.
• userLocation (string) - The two-letter ISO country code of the user, e.g. US.
• numResults (integer) - Number of results to return. Limits vary by search type: With "neural": max 100 results With "deep": max 100 results If you want to increase the num results beyond these limits, contact sales (hello@exa.ai)
• includeDomains (string[]) - List of domains to include in the search. If specified, results will only come from these domains.
• excludeDomains (string[]) - List of domains to exclude from search results. If specified, no results will be returned from these domains.
• startCrawlDate (string<date-time>) - Crawl date refers to the date that Exa discovered a link. Results will include links that were crawled after this date. Must be specified in ISO 8601 format.
• endCrawlDate (string<date-time>) - Crawl date refers to the date that Exa discovered a link. Results will include links that were crawled before this date. Must be specified in ISO 8601 format.
• startPublishedDate (string<date-time>) - Only links with a published date after this will be returned. Must be specified in ISO 8601 format.
• endPublishedDate (string<date-time>) - Only links with a published date before this will be returned. Must be specified in ISO 8601 format.
• includeText (string[]) - List of strings that must be present in webpage text of results. Currently, only 1 string is supported, of up to 5 words.
• excludeText (string[]) - List of strings that must not be present in webpage text of results. Currently, only 1 string is supported, of up to 5 words. Checks from the first 1000 words of the webpage text.
• context (string) - Return page contents as a context string for LLM. When true, combines all result contents into one string. We recommend using 10000+ characters for best results, though no limit works best. Context strings often perform better than highlights for RAG applications.
• moderation (boolean) - Enable content moderation to filter unsafe content from search results.
• contents (object)

curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"exa","path":"/search"}'
  "query": "startups building AI coding assistants",
  "num_results": 10,
  "contents": {"text": true}
}'

Get a task

Retrieve the status and results of a previously created research task.Use the unique researchId returned from POST /research/v1 to poll until the task is finished.

Parameters:

• stream (string) - Set to "true" to receive real-time updates via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• events (string) - Set to "true" to include the detailed event log of all operations performed

curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"exa","path":"/research/v1/{researchId}"}'