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exa/search

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POSThttps://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model IDexa/search

Input Schema

11 parameters · 1 required · 10 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	Required	The natural-language search query.
`type`	string	Optional	Search mode. auto lets Exa choose; the deep modes trade latency for higher-quality retrieval. · Options: auto, fast, instant, deep-lite, deep, deep-reasoning · Default: "auto" autofastinstantdeep-litedeepdeep-reasoning
`category`	string	Optional	Optional hint about the kind of pages to prioritize. · Options: company, research paper, news, personal site, financial report, people companyresearch papernewspersonal sitefinancial reportpeople
`contents`	object	Optional	Content options to return alongside each result.
`numResults`	integer	Optional	Number of results to return. · Min: 1 · Max: 100 · Default: 10
`outputSchema`	object	Optional	JSON Schema used to synthesize a structured output from the results.
`systemPrompt`	string	Optional	Instruction that guides how the structured output is generated.
`excludeDomains`	string[]	Optional	Exclude results from these domains.
`includeDomains`	string[]	Optional	Only return results from these domains.
`endPublishedDate`	string	Optional	Only return results published on or before this ISO 8601 date.
`startPublishedDate`	string	Optional	Only return results published on or after this ISO 8601 date.

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

curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "exa/search",
  "type": "auto",
  "query": "latest evaluation frameworks for AI agents",
  "numResults": 10,
  "prompt": "a beautiful sunset over mountains"
}'

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