Quickstart
Welcome to the You.com API developer platform. In just a few minutes, you’ll know how to run a web search that returns real-time, highly relevant and accurate results.
Get your API key
- Sign in or create an account on our platform here. We’ll start you off with $100 in complimentary credits. No credit card necessary.
- From the sidebar, navigate to the API Keys section and create a new key.
- Copy your API key and store it securely. Once it is generated, this will be the only time you have access to it. If you lose your key, you’ll have to create 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:
You should see something like this:
This is a very simple example, but can be much more powerful. You can specify the number of results you want, narrow down on region and language and a lot more. Learn more here.
We return reliable, highly accurate and well structured results that make the answer to the original question easy to find. You can decide how many results you want to see. Then, 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.