Quickstart
Welcome to You.com API developer platform. In just a few minutes, you know how to run a web search that returns real-time, highly relevant and accurate results.
Get your API key
- Select a you.com plan or an API plan.
- Once you have an active account, navigate to the API console. Here, you should be able to create a new key.
- Copy your API key and save it somewhere secure. Once it is generated, this will be the only time you have access to it. If you lose your key, you will have to generate a new one.
Make your first API call
Make your first API call with our Search API.
The Search API is designed to return LLM-ready web results based on a user’s natural language query. Imagine you want to feed an LLM with the information that comes from a question like “What is the capital of the USA?”. To do so, write the following:
The result should look similar to this:
We return reliable, highly accurate and well structured results that make the answer to the original question easy to find. An LLM can easily synthesise the results above to provide the answer you’re looking for: Washington D.C.
To learn more about our APIs and how to use them, read the API reference.