You.com Web Search, Research & Content Extraction

Prerequisites

# Verify curl and jq are available
curl --version
jq --version

API Key (optional for Search)

The Search endpoint (/v1/agents/search) works without an API key — no signup, no billing required. An API key unlocks higher rate limits and is required for Research and Contents endpoints.

# Optional for search, required for research/contents
export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"