Welcome to this month’s You.com API Roundup! Over the past several weeks, we focused on two priorities:
- Improving our industry-leading Search accuracy with new, transformative Search endpoints
- Improving the developer experience by:
- Making it faster and easier to build with You.com
- Expanding integration and distribution surfaces so You.com Search and Agent APIs fit naturally into your workflow
From our new Deep Search API to improvements across MCP, SDKs, automations, and our Databricks integration, each release is designed to return higher-quality results, reduce development friction, and accelerate how you prototype and ship AI-powered features.
Here’s what’s new:
- Deep Search API (Early Access): High-precision, verified excerpts from live webpages to support trustworthy agent reasoning.
- You.com MCP Server: Real-time web search and content retrieval directly inside MCP-enabled IDEs and no-code automation platforms.
- Python SDK (v0): Lightweight wrappers for Search, Content, and News that remove request-handling boilerplate.
- Zapier Integration: Use You.com Search, Content, and News APIs in no-code automations across 8,000+ Zapier apps.
- Databricks MCP Marketplace: You.com is now a GA launch partner. Provision Search, Content, and Express tools with one click in the Databricks MCP Marketplace.
Deep Search (Early Access)
What It Is
High-precision, verified excerpts from the live web—built for agents, research tools, and any application where accuracy and relevance matter.
Today’s AI use cases increasingly depend on accurate, grounded information. Traditional search snippets are fast but often too generic. Full-page extraction is thorough but slow, expensive, and noisy. Deep Search sits directly between those extremes.
What It Does
Deep Search retrieves live webpages, extracts only the passages that directly answer the query, and verifies that the text genuinely appears on those pages before returning it. It uses a combination of parallel page fetches, an LLM-based highlighter, and fuzzy‑match verification to prevent paraphrasing or hallucination.
This delivers tight, relevant, and verified excerpts instead of walls of text.
Why It Matters
- Higher answer quality for agents, copilots, and retrieval pipelines
- Lower hallucination risk: Verified snippets reduce downstream model errors
- Less token load: No need to send entire pages to LLMs
- Developer‑aligned behavior: Precise, trustworthy context that improves reasoning, instead of generic snippets models struggle to interpret
When It’s Used
With a SimpleQA: 95%+ accuracy and optimized extraction latencies, Deep Search offers one of the most reliable ways to ground AI systems using the live web.
- Coding assistants needing specific API details
- Research agents synthesizing real‑time information
- Study assistants requiring factual, sourced excerpts
- Product comparison and policy analysis tools that depend on precise answers
This first release marks the beginning of You.com’s Deep Search. Future iterations will introduce recursive querying, derived content extraction, and highly customizable search parameters. Developers will gain unprecedented control over how deeply their applications explore the web, how results are structured, and how context is delivered to downstream models, bringing us closer to a new era of search designed explicitly for AI agents, not humans clicking links.
Deep Search will be ready for early access in a few weeks. If you want to turbocharge your AI search‑enabled workflows with grounded, highly relevant snippets, sign up for early access.
You.com MCP Server & New Endpoints: Contents and Express
Agents are starting to play a larger role in how developers write, debug, and ship software. To support that shift, we’ve expanded the You.com MCP Server to expose Search and now Content, and Express Agent capabilities directly to MCP-compatible environments.
What It Does
The server provides MCP tool implementations for:
- Search: enables your agents to search for fresh results on the web
- Content: enables your agents to get the HTML or markdown of a target webpage
- Express Agent: answers the agent’s query with an LLM using web results (max 1 web search) to ground the answer
It works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, and any other MCP-enabled editor or automation platform. Powered by Bun, the server handles requests efficiently and supports simple API-key authentication.
Why It Matters
- Faster build loops: Agents can fetch real-time web results right inside your IDE
- Less context switching: No tab hopping or copy/paste workflows
- Better agent reasoning: Agents pull fresh web data mid-flow instead of relying on stale context
- Built for agentic IDEs: Fits naturally into environments where LLMs are part of the development workflow
Learn More
To learn more about the Model Context Protocol and its importance in enabling agentic workflows, see our October Release blog. You can also explore how to deploy the You.com MCP Server in your preferred IDE or automation platform.
Python SDK
We’ve released the first version of our Python SDK to make it easier to work with You.com APIs in Python environments—from notebooks to backend services to agent pipelines.
What It Does
The SDK exposes simple Python methods for all the You.com endpoints:
- Search: enables your agents to search for fresh results on the web
- Content: enables your agents to get the HTML or markdown of a target webpage
- Agents: ranging from Express to Custom to Advanced
It handles:
- Authentication
- Request construction
- Response parsing
- Error handling
…so you can focus on building logic rather than managing HTTP calls or serializing payloads yourself.
Why It Matters
- Fewer moving parts: Call the APIs the way Python developers expect
- Cleaner code: Consistent functions instead of one-off request blocks
- Faster iteration: Especially when experimenting with prompts, retrieval patterns, or agent behaviors
- Production-friendly: Easy to integrate into services, pipelines, and scripts
- Team-friendly: Shared abstractions make it easier for others to read and extend your code
Try It Out
→ [Python SDK]
→ [PyPI Link]
You.com Zapier Integration
Our You.com Zapier integration is now fully available, making it easy to connect You.com Search, Content, and News APIs to more than 8,000 apps - no coding required.
What It Does
Using Zapier’s workflow builder, you can:
- Trigger You.com Search or AI responses from any Zapier-supported app or automation workflow
- Send results to Slack, Gmail, Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, and more
- Chain You.com queries into multi-step workflows
- Automate repetitive research, content, and data-collection tasks
Why It Matters
- No engineering lift: Teammates can create their own automations
- Fewer internal requests: Developers don’t need to build custom integrations
- Fits into existing ops workflows: Great for marketing, support, research, and content teams
- Fast adoption: Most workflows take minutes to set up
Try It
→ [Zapier Integration]
You.com in the Databricks MCP Marketplace
GA Launch Partner
We’re proud to be a launch partner of the Databricks MCP Marketplace, enabling enterprises to deploy You.com’s tools as governed, enterprise-grade services through Unity Catalog.
What It Does
Databricks customers can now install You.com’s MCP server and immediately enable:
- Search
- Contents
- Express Agents
…as fully-integrated MCP tools—with a single click in the Marketplace.
Why It Matters
- Streamlined access: Instead of custom integration work, You.com services become discoverable and deployable directly within Databricks Agent workloads
- Consistent governance: All access is managed via Unity Catalog, delivering auditability, access control, and enterprise-grade compliance
- Real-time agent utility: Agents built on Databricks can now pull fresh web data, query content, and act on knowledge using You.com services seamlessly
- Faster “data-to-action” path: With You.com tools in the Marketplace, you reduce the time between prototyping and production for agent-driven workflows
Learn More
→ [Databricks Marketplace]
Get Started Today
Ready to explore these new capabilities? Each update this month is designed to help you build AI applications that are faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
- Deep Search API (Early Access): Power your agents with high-precision, context-aware excerpts from live webpages—built for accuracy and grounded reasoning.
- MCP Server: Standardize search and retrieval across providers and let your agents access real-time web data directly from your IDE.
- Python SDK: Add You.com Search, Content, and News to your Python workflows with minimal boilerplate.
- Zapier Integration: Connect You.com to 8,000+ apps in minutes—no code required.
- Databricks MCP Marketplace: Enable You.com tools through Unity Catalog and give your Databricks agents governed access to fresh, reliable web context.
As always, we're committed to making advanced AI capabilities more accessible to developers. These releases represent important steps toward a more powerful, developer-friendly platform for building agentic and retrieval-driven applications.
Stay tuned. More capabilities are on the way. The future of AI development is here, and we’re excited to build it with you.
If you have questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to our support team or join the conversation in our developer Discord.
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