Exa JavaScript SDK

The official JavaScript SDK for Exa, the web search API built for AI.

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Install

npm install exa-js

Quick Start

import Exa from "exa-js";

const exa = new Exa(process.env.EXA_API_KEY);

// Search the web
const result = await exa.search("blog post about artificial intelligence", {
  type: "auto",
  contents: {
    highlights: true,
  },
});

// Get answers with citations
const { answer } = await exa.answer("What is the capital of France?");

Search

Find webpages using natural language queries.

const result = await exa.search("interesting articles about space", {
  numResults: 10,
  includeDomains: ["nasa.gov", "space.com"],
  startPublishedDate: "2024-01-01",
  contents: {
    highlights: true,
  },
});

const resultWithOutput = await exa.search("Who leads OpenAI's safety team?", {
  type: "auto",
  systemPrompt: "Prefer official sources and avoid duplicate results",
  outputSchema: {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      leader: { type: "string" },
      title: { type: "string" },
      sourceCount: { type: "number" },
    },
    required: ["leader", "title"],
  },
});

console.log(resultWithOutput.output?.content);

for await (const chunk of exa.streamSearch("Who leads OpenAI's safety team?", {
  type: "auto",
})) {
  if (chunk.content) {
    process.stdout.write(chunk.content);
  }
}

Search outputSchema modes:

• type: "text": return plain text in output.content (optionally guided by description)
• type: "object": return structured JSON in output.content

systemPrompt and outputSchema are supported on every search type. Search streaming is available via streamSearch(...), which yields OpenAI-style chat completion chunks.

For type: "object", search currently enforces:

• max nesting depth: 2
• max total properties: 10

Deep search variants that also support additionalQueries:

• deep-lite
• deep
• deep-reasoning

Contents

Get clean text, highlights, or summaries from any URL.

const { results } = await exa.getContents(["https://docs.exa.ai"], {
  text: true,
  highlights: true,
  summary: true,
});

Answer

const response = await exa.answer("What caused the 2008 financial crisis?");
console.log(response.answer);

for await (const chunk of exa.streamAnswer("Explain quantum computing")) {
  if (chunk.content) {
    process.stdout.write(chunk.content);
  }
}

Agent API

const run = await exa.agent.runs.create({
  query:
    "Find engineering leaders at AI infrastructure companies that raised a Series A or B in the last 6 months.",
  outputSchema: {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      people: {
        type: "array",
        maxItems: 10,
        items: {
          type: "object",
          properties: {
            name: { type: "string" },
            contact_email: { type: "string", format: "email" },
            linkedin_url: { type: "string", format: "uri" },
          },
          required: ["name", "linkedin_url"],
        },
      },
    },
    required: ["people"],
  },
  effort: "auto",
  // Optionally enable Exa Connect data providers for the run.
  dataSources: [{ provider: "financial_datasets" }],
});

const completedRun = await exa.agent.runs.pollUntilFinished(run.id);
console.log(completedRun.output?.structured);
// Per-provider tool-call counts and cost for any Exa Connect data sources used.
console.log(completedRun.usage?.dataSources, completedRun.costDollars?.dataSources);

TypeScript

Full TypeScript support with types for all methods.

import Exa from "exa-js";
import type { SearchResponse, RegularSearchOptions } from "exa-js";

Links

• Documentation
• API Reference
• Examples

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! For major changes, open an issue first.

License

MIT.