Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for Exa
Search the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Actions
- 3
- Read
- 3
- Write
- 0
Actions
What your agents can do in Exa
3 actions. Each one is a tool your agents can call and a step your workflows can run.
Read 3
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search the web
Searches the web by meaning and returns matching pages with their title, address, published date and author.
Get the contents of web pages
Reads up to 10 web pages by address and returns each page's title, text.
Answer a question from the web
Searches the web and writes a short answer to a question, with the pages it used as citations (title and address).
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Exa but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Exa account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Exa data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search the web or get the contents of web pages in Exa, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Exa and Slack: it can search the web in Exa and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
- 03
Run it as a workflow step
Add "Search the web" to a workflow, and it runs in Exa the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
- Brave Search3 actionsSearch the web, news and images with Brave's independent search index.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
- Apify4 actionsRun Apify Actors (ready-made scrapers and automations for Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, any website …) and read the data they collect.
FAQ
Exa and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Exa?
Yes. The Exa connector has 3 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Exa?
Paste an API key from your Exa account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Exa without asking?
No. Every Exa action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Exa in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Exa action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Exa to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.