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exa/contents

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POSThttps://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/exa/contents

Model IDexa/contents

Input Schema

6 parameters · 1 required · 5 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`ids`	string[]	Required	The URLs (or Exa result ids) to fetch contents for.
`text`	boolean	Optional	Return the full page text.
`summary`	boolean	Optional	Return an AI-generated summary of the page.
`subpages`	integer	Optional	Number of linked subpages to also fetch.
`livecrawl`	string	Optional	Freshness policy: always live-crawl, fall back to live crawl on cache miss, or never live-crawl. · Options: always, fallback, never alwaysfallbacknever
`highlights`	boolean	Optional	Return highlighted relevant snippets.

Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
`id`	string	Unique identifier for the generation task
`status`	string	Task status: pending, running, completed, failed, timeout
`model`	string	Model used for the generation
`outputs`	array	Array of output items
`outputs[].url`	string	URL of the generated artifact
`outputs[].content_type`	string	MIME type (e.g. image/png, video/mp4)
`error`	object \| null	Error details if failed, null on success
`error.type`	string	Machine-readable error type code
`error.message`	string	Human-readable error description

Code Examples

Ready-to-run snippets

const apiKey = process.env.SANDBASE_API_KEY;
const response = await fetch("https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/exa/contents", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "ids": [
      "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/a0ad9eef-966a-46c6-8f69-4c42f972fe58/input/31c6cd46-ab5b-48a4-97da-a0a5d9b01220.bin"
    ],
    "text": true
  }),
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());
console.log(await response.json());

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