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We've created the core infrastructure needed to power private, real-time, reliable AI solutions so that you don't have to. Access real-time Web Search, Answer, Contents, Research, and Finance Research APIs, all with industry-leading accuracy.

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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")

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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.