🧩 Product Overview
Exa is an AI-powered web search API designed for intelligent information retrieval. It offers capabilities such as semantic search, content extraction, and question answering, making it ideal for automation workflows that require dynamic web data.
⚠️ Important Note for Contributors
To ensure consistency and maintainability, this feature must be submitted as a Piece following the Activepieces architecture. Submissions that do not follow this format will not be accepted. Please make sure to review the Piece Development Guidelines before starting development.
🛠️ Read Actions
| Action Item |
Use Case |
| Get Contents |
Retrieve clean, up-to-date, and parsed HTML content from specified URLs. For example, extract the main content from a list of news articles for sentiment analysis.. |
| Generate Answer (Ask AI) |
Provide direct answers to queries by performing a search and summarizing the results. For instance, answer the question "What are the latest developments in AI ethics?" by summarizing recent articles. |
🔍 Search Actions
| Action Item |
Use Case |
| Perform Search |
Execute a search query using Exa's embeddings-based or keyword search to retrieve relevant web content. For example, search for recent publications on "quantum computing advancements" and compile the findings for analysis. |
| Find Similar Links |
Identify and return web pages that are semantically similar to a provided URL. For instance, given a blog post on "renewable energy sources," find other articles discussing similar topics for content aggregation. |
📚 API Reference
🧪 Test Account Access
You can access Exa's API by signing up at https://exa.ai/ and obtaining an API key.
🧑💻 New to Activepieces?
Activepieces is the leading open source AI automation platform. We have many apps (we call them Pieces), that are available within the builder and as MCPs. These apps are built with our TypeScript framework and are easy to develop. Once merged into our repository, they become available as pieces in our automation builder and as MCPs usable by AI agents and MCP clients.
Start building here: Piece Development Docs
🧩 Product Overview
Exa is an AI-powered web search API designed for intelligent information retrieval. It offers capabilities such as semantic search, content extraction, and question answering, making it ideal for automation workflows that require dynamic web data.
To ensure consistency and maintainability, this feature must be submitted as a Piece following the Activepieces architecture. Submissions that do not follow this format will not be accepted. Please make sure to review the Piece Development Guidelines before starting development.
🛠️ Read Actions
🔍 Search Actions
📚 API Reference
🧪 Test Account Access
You can access Exa's API by signing up at https://exa.ai/ and obtaining an API key.
🧑💻 New to Activepieces?
Activepieces is the leading open source AI automation platform. We have many apps (we call them Pieces), that are available within the builder and as MCPs. These apps are built with our TypeScript framework and are easy to develop. Once merged into our repository, they become available as pieces in our automation builder and as MCPs usable by AI agents and MCP clients.
Start building here: Piece Development Docs