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# 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()`

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### 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()`

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### Image Search API

Elevate your applications with visual elements using the Image Search API. Find the most relevant images for any query across 100s of millions of the web's images.

 

- 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()`

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### Deep Research API (ARI)

Go from question to strategic intelligence in under 5 minutes and conduct your most critical research, informed by data that matters to you!

 

- 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

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# 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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### "You.com’s APIs provide us with the functionality and flexibility that we need to quickly build solutions for our customers’ problems."

CEO of Wort & Bild Verla, health media provider

Andreas Arntzen

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