Powerful APIs
For your AI Projects
You.com's APIs make LLMs and search experiences more factual and up to date with super fast, scalable real-time web data
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Web Search API
A powerful API for enhancing your AI and business applications with advanced web search functionalities. Find annotations for research the same way you use a search engine to support your work.
- Our API provides apps with the most factual, up-to-date results
- Access to real-time web data with annotations
- Industry leading latency, scale and uptime
- Unbeatable pricing for large volume requests
- Image Search available
import requests
def get_search_results(query):
headers = {"X-API-Key": YOUR_API_KEY}
params = {"query": query}
return requests.get(
"https://api.ydc-index.io/search?query={query}",
params=params,
headers=headers,
).json()
Live News API
A great way to enhance you application with latest breaking news by country or industry with uniquely long snipets. General news query search across hundreds of top local/national/international publishers.
- Real-time news search (within minutes of breaking news)
- 300ms p99 latency (2x faster than competition)
- Serves millions of daily queries at 99.99% historical uptime
- Ideal for customers seeking an ultra-fast news search API solution w/o compromising on search quality
import requests
def get_news_results(query):
headers = {"X-API-Key": YOUR_API_KEY}
params = {"query": query}
return requests.get(
"https://api.ydc-index.io/news?query={query}",
params=params,
headers=headers,
).json()
Image Search API
- Get original and thumbnail image urls
- Access the most relevant images given your query
- Get started with just a few lines of code
import requests
def get_image_results(query):
headers = {"X-API-Key": YOUR_API_KEY}
params = {"q": query}
return requests.get(
"https://image-search.ydc-index.io/images",
params=params,
headers=headers
).json()
Deep Research API (ARI)
- With a simple prompt, ARI delivers comprehensive research reports
- Complete with a table of contents, data visualizations and clickable references.
- Each insight is backed by rich, clickable citations that lead directly to the original sources
- From whitepapers to slide decks, ARI generates outputs in your brand’s voice, tone, and templates.
- No training on your data
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA (BAA), ISO 27001, and GDPR compliant
Enterprise-Ready
Built for scale with enterprise-grade security, reliability, and support
99.9% uptime SLA
Best in class performance
Best in class pricing
Best in class scalability
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