Integrate You.com APIs Directly

Build applications that call You.com APIs using standard HTTP clients — no SDK required. The APIs use simple REST endpoints with optional API key authentication — the Search API allows 100 free searches per day without an API key.

You.com provides three APIs that serve different needs:

• Research API — Ask a complex question, get a synthesized Markdown answer with inline citations. The API autonomously runs multiple searches, reads pages, cross-references sources, and reasons over the results. One call replaces an entire RAG pipeline.
• Search API — Get raw web and news results for a query (100 free searches/day without an API key). You control what happens with the results — feed them into your own LLM, build a custom UI, or process them programmatically.
• Contents API — Extract full page content (HTML, Markdown, metadata) from specific URLs. Useful for deep-reading pages found via Search or for crawling known URLs.

Choose Your Path

Path A: Research API — One call to get a cited, synthesized answer to any question Path B: Search + Contents — Raw building blocks for custom search pipelines and data extraction

Decision Point

Ask: Do you need a ready-to-use answer with citations, or raw search results you'll process yourself?