Exa searches the web, retrieves page content, and answers questions with citations. Use Agent for multi-step research and supply a JSON schema when you need structured results with field-level citations.

Migration notes. Use Agent for multi-step research. Sim routes workflows configured with the old Research operation to Agent and maps their former research-model setting to an effort level. Find Similar Links remains a legacy operation; prefer the current Search API for new workflows. Use maxAgeHours for content freshness instead of the legacy livecrawl setting.

Use the block

Search the web, retrieve page content, answer questions with citations, or run multi-step research with Exa Agent. Find Similar Links remains a legacy operation; prefer Search for new workflows.

Actions

Exa Search

Search the web using Exa AI. Returns relevant search results with titles, URLs, and text snippets.

Inputs and outputs

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	Yes	The search query to execute
numResults	number	No	Number of results to return (1-100). Default: 10
type	string	No	Search type: "instant", "fast", "auto", "deep-lite", "deep", or "deep-reasoning". Default: "auto"
includeDomains	string	No	Comma-separated list of domains to include in results (e.g., "github.com, stackoverflow.com")
excludeDomains	string	No	Comma-separated list of domains to exclude from results (e.g., "reddit.com, pinterest.com")
category	string	No	Filter by category: company, publication, news, personal site, financial report, people
text	boolean	No	Include full text content in results (default: false)
highlights	boolean	No	Include highlighted snippets in results (default: false)
summary	boolean	No	Include AI-generated summaries in results (default: false)
summaryQuery	string	No	Query to focus the generated summaries on a specific question
subpages	number	No	Number of subpages to crawl per result (0-100). Default: 0
subpageTarget	string	No	Comma-separated keywords to target specific subpages (e.g., "docs,pricing,about")
extrasLinks	number	No	Number of links to extract from each result page (0-1000). Default: 0
extrasImageLinks	number	No	Number of image URLs to extract from each result page (0-1000). Default: 0
outputSchema	json	No	JSON Schema describing a synthesized answer to build from the results. Returned in structuredOutput.
systemPrompt	string	No	Additional guidance for generating the synthesized output
userLocation	string	No	Two-letter ISO country code to localize results (e.g., "US")
maxAgeHours	number	No	Cache freshness in hours (-1 to 720). 0 always crawls live, -1 uses cache only. Cannot be combined with livecrawl.
livecrawlTimeout	number	No	Live crawl timeout in milliseconds (max 90000). Default: 10000
livecrawl	string	No	Deprecated: use maxAgeHours instead. Live crawling mode: never, fallback, always, or preferred
startPublishedDate	string	No	Only include results published on or after this ISO 8601 date (e.g., "2024-01-01" or "2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z")
endPublishedDate	string	No	Only include results published on or before this ISO 8601 date
startCrawlDate	string	No	Deprecated: use startPublishedDate. Only include results crawled on or after this ISO 8601 date
endCrawlDate	string	No	Deprecated: use endPublishedDate. Only include results crawled on or before this ISO 8601 date
apiKey	string	Yes	Exa AI API Key

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
results	array	Search results with titles, URLs, and text snippets
↳ id	string	Result identifier, usable as an id on the Get Contents operation
↳ title	string	The title of the search result
↳ url	string	The URL of the search result
↳ publishedDate	string	Date when the content was published
↳ author	string	The author of the content
↳ summary	string	A brief summary of the content
↳ favicon	string	URL of the site's favicon
↳ image	string	URL of a representative image from the page
↳ text	string	Text snippet or full content from the page
↳ highlights	array	Relevant snippets extracted from the page
↳ highlightScores	array	Similarity score for each highlight
↳ subpages	json	Crawled subpages of the result
↳ entities	json	Structured entity data for company, people, and publication results
↳ extras	json	Extracted links and image links when requested
↳ score	number	Relevance score. Only returned by the legacy neural search type
requestId	string	Exa request identifier, useful for support
structuredOutput	json	Synthesized answer matching outputSchema, when one was supplied
grounding	json	Field-level citations backing the synthesized output

Exa Get Contents

Retrieve the contents of webpages using Exa AI. Returns the title, text content, and optional summaries for each URL.

Inputs and outputs

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
urls	string	No	Comma-separated list of URLs to retrieve content from (1-100). Provide either urls or ids, not both.
ids	string	No	Comma-separated list of result IDs from a prior Exa search (1-100). Provide either urls or ids, not both.
text	boolean	No	If true, returns full page text with default settings. If false, disables text return.
summary	boolean	No	Include an AI-generated summary of each page (default: false)
summaryQuery	string	No	Query to guide the summary generation
subpages	number	No	Number of subpages to crawl from the provided URLs (0-100)
subpageTarget	string	No	Comma-separated keywords to target specific subpages (e.g., "docs,tutorial,about")
highlights	boolean	No	Include highlighted snippets in results (default: false)
extrasLinks	number	No	Number of links to extract from each page (0-1000). Default: 0
extrasImageLinks	number	No	Number of image URLs to extract from each page (0-1000). Default: 0
maxAgeHours	number	No	Cache freshness in hours (-1 to 720). 0 always crawls live, -1 uses cache only. Cannot be combined with livecrawl.
livecrawlTimeout	number	No	Live crawl timeout in milliseconds (max 90000). Default: 10000
livecrawl	string	No	Deprecated: use maxAgeHours instead. Live crawling mode: never, fallback, always, or preferred
apiKey	string	Yes	Exa AI API Key

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
results	array	Retrieved content from URLs with title, text, and summaries
↳ id	string	Exa identifier for the retrieved document
↳ url	string	The URL that content was retrieved from
↳ title	string	The title of the webpage
↳ text	string	The full text content of the webpage
↳ summary	string	AI-generated summary of the webpage content
↳ highlights	array	Relevant snippets extracted from the page
↳ highlightScores	array	Similarity score for each highlight
↳ subpages	json	Crawled subpages of the document
↳ entities	json	Structured entity data for company, people, and publication pages
↳ extras	json	Extracted links and image links when requested
statuses	json	Per-URL crawl outcome, showing which pages succeeded and whether they came from cache
requestId	string	Exa request identifier, useful for support

Exa Find Similar Links

Find webpages similar to a given URL using Exa AI. Deprecated by Exa in favor of Search — prefer Search for new workflows.

Inputs and outputs

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
url	string	Yes	The URL to find similar links for
numResults	number	No	Number of similar links to return (1-100). Default: 10
text	boolean	No	Whether to include the full text of the similar pages
includeDomains	string	No	Comma-separated list of domains to include in results (e.g., "github.com, stackoverflow.com")
excludeDomains	string	No	Comma-separated list of domains to exclude from results (e.g., "reddit.com, pinterest.com")
excludeSourceDomain	boolean	No	Exclude the source domain from results (default: false)
category	string	No	Filter by category: company, publication, news, personal site, financial report, people
highlights	boolean	No	Include highlighted snippets in results (default: false)
summary	boolean	No	Include AI-generated summaries in results (default: false)
maxAgeHours	number	No	Cache freshness in hours (-1 to 720). 0 always crawls live, -1 uses cache only. Cannot be combined with livecrawl.
livecrawlTimeout	number	No	Live crawl timeout in milliseconds (max 90000). Default: 10000
livecrawl	string	No	Deprecated: use maxAgeHours instead. Live crawling mode: never, fallback, always, or preferred
apiKey	string	Yes	Exa AI API Key

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
similarLinks	array	Similar links found with titles, URLs, and text snippets
↳ id	string	Exa identifier for the similar page
↳ title	string	The title of the similar webpage
↳ url	string	The URL of the similar webpage
↳ text	string	Text snippet or full content from the similar webpage
↳ summary	string	AI-generated summary of the similar webpage
↳ highlights	array	Relevant snippets extracted from the page
↳ score	number	Similarity score indicating how similar the page is
requestId	string	Exa request identifier, useful for support

Exa Answer

Get an AI-generated answer to a question with citations from the web using Exa AI.

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Exa Agent

Run a deep research task with Exa Agent. Handles multi-step list building, enrichment, and research, returning a written answer with field-level citations and optional structured output.

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