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Build agentic apps with real-time web intelligence.

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You.com is search infrastructure for AI applications. Five REST APIs return real-time web and news results, clean page content, and citation-backed answers from the public web and a finance-optimized index, so your model or agent works from current sources it can cite. One API key covers all five, billed per request.

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Try our APIs

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Go to Platform
from youdotcom import You
 
with You() as you:
    res = you.search(
        query="best practices for scaling microservices architecture in production",
    )
 
    # Each result contains a title, URL, snippets and more
    if res.results and res.results.web:
        for result in res.results.web:
            print(f"Title: {result.title}")
            print(f"URL: {result.url}")
            if result.snippets:
                print(f"Snippet: {result.snippets[0]}\n")

Pick an API

Web Search API

Returns real-time, LLM-ready web and news results

Contents API

Retrieves clean HTML or Markdown content from any webpage

Answer API

Returns a cited, synthesized answer from a single query

Research API

Multi-step reasoning that searches, reads, and synthesizes into a well-cited answer

Finance Research API

Returns cited answers from a finance-optimized index

Choose the Right API

Compare job fit, latency, and price across all five

Try it free—no API key required

Connect any MCP-enabled tool (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains, and more) to https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free for keyless you-search and you-discover. Limited to 100 queries per day. For higher limits and access to you-contents, you-research, you-finance, and you-balance, get an API key at you.com/platform—new accounts start with $100 in complimentary credits. See the MCP Server guide for setup.

Install our docs MCP server

This documentation ships with a Docs MCP Server that gives any MCP-enabled agent a searchDocs tool to search every page here and get back relevant passages with source URLs—no API key required. Point your client at https://you.com/docs/_mcp/server. See the Docs MCP Server guide for setup and examples.

Build and explore

API reference

Endpoints, parameters, and response schemas, with an interactive playground

SDKs & tools

Get SDKs, CLI, the OpenAPI spec, and prebuilt quickstart for easy integration

Examples

Runnable sample apps with live demos and open-source repos

Questions and feedback

If you have any questions or feedback, refer to the Support section in the sidebar, where you’ll find helpful resources.