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'og:title': You.com API Docs | Real-Time Web Intelligence for AI Applications
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Search, Contents, and Research APIs that give your AI app real-time web
intelligence. Start with free credits — no credit card required.
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### Try our APIs

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### Use cases

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  <Card title="Data APIs" icon="fa-regular fa-database" href="/api-reference/search/v1-search">
    Real-time Search and Content APIs for building intelligent agents
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    Get SDKs, CLI, the OpenAPI spec, and prebuilt quickstart for easy integration
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### Popular APIs

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  <Card title="Search" icon="fa-regular fa-search" href="/api-reference/search/v1-search">
    Returns real-time, LLM-ready web and news results
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  <Card title="Research" icon="fa-regular fa-telescope" href="/api-reference/research/v1-research">
    Multi-step reasoning that searches, reads, and synthesizes into a well-cited answer
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  <Card title="Contents" icon="fa-regular fa-file-lines" href="/api-reference/contents">
    Retrieves clean HTML or Markdown content from any webpage
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### Questions and feedback

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