[You.com] Web Search
| Operator | Description | Example |
About this capability
| Operator | Description | Example |
| -------- | ----------- | ------- |
| site: | Search within a domain and its subdomains | site:uscourts.gov |
| filetype: | Search for a specific file type | filetype:pdf |
| + | Require the exact term after the operator | +GAAP |
| - | Exclude the exact term after the operator | -prs |
| AND | Require both expressions | guitar AND Fender |
| OR | Match either expression | guitar OR drum |
| NOT | Negate an expression | NOT site:uscourts.gov |
- Query supports You.com search operators:
- Use livecrawl with livecrawlFormats: ['markdown'] when you need full page content instead of snippets.
- Use the Get Page Content step when you already know the URLs to fetch.
- Use freshness for recency: day, week, month, year, or YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD.
- Use country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and language (BCP 47) to focus results geographically or linguistically.
- includeDomains cannot be combined with excludeDomains or boostDomains.
Related capabilities
[You.com] Get Live News
Fetch live news articles through the You.com Search API and return the full structured response.
[You.com] Get Page Content
Fetch clean Markdown, HTML, or metadata for known URLs using the You.com Contents API.
[You.com] Web Research
Ask a research question and return a grounded You.com Research API answer with sources.
[You.com] Finance Research
Ask a financial research question using You.com Finance Research and return the sourced response.
[TypeSafe] Evaluate
Ask TypeSafe structured questions about text or JSON and get calibrated answers. The model returns a probability, a selected option, or a score. It does not write a reply. Each question is a noul (yes or no, as a probability from 0 to 1), a choice (one option from a set you define, with a probability for each), or a score (a rating against ordered levels). Put every question in the same call. The question id is yours: answers come back under the same ids. The model defaults to Jev (jev-latest).
Screenshot URL
Capture a screenshot of a web page as a PNG image.
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