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Shared credential for production and unattended runs.
Connect Exa with Hookshot™ and your stack
Exa focuses on data extraction and search, helping teams gather, analyze, and visualize information from websites, APIs, or internal databases
Tools and triggers
What Agents can do in Exa
Available tools and events after Exa is connected.
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Create a Monitor
Tool to create a new Monitor. Use when you need to schedule automated updates for a Webset without manual runs.
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Create Import
Tool to create a new import to upload data into a Webset. Use when you need to initialize an import before uploading the data file.
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Create Research Task
Creates an asynchronous research task that explores the web, gathers sources, synthesizes findings, and returns results with citations. The API responds immediately with a researchId for polling completion status. Use…
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Create Webset
Tool to create a new Webset with search, import, and enrichment setup. Use when you need to configure and seed a Webset in one call.
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Delete Import
Tool to delete an existing import. Use when you need to permanently remove an import by its ID.
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Delete Webset
Tool to delete a Webset. Use after confirming the Webset ID to permanently remove the Webset and all its items.
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Generate an Answer
Generates a direct, citation-backed answer to a clear natural language question or topic using Exa's search, adept at both specific answers and detailed summaries for open-ended queries. Response contains an `answer`…
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Get API Key
Tool to retrieve details of a specific API key by its ID. Use when you need to fetch information about an API key in the team management context.
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Get Contents From URLs or Document IDs
Retrieve text / highlights / summary / subpages from URLs. The endpoint returns HTTP 200 even when individual URLs fail — always inspect `statuses[]` for CRAWL_NOT_FOUND, CRAWL_LIVECRAWL_TIMEOUT, SOURCE_NOT_AVAILABLE…
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Get Event
Tool to get details of a specific event by its ID. Use when you have an event ID and need its full details.
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Get Research Task
Tool to retrieve the status and results of a previously created research task. Use the unique researchId returned from POST /research/v1 to poll until the task is finished.
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List Events
Tool to list all events that have occurred in the system. Use when you need to paginate through the event history.
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List Imports
Tool to list all imports for the Webset. Use when you need to paginate through and monitor import jobs.
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List Research Tasks
Tool to retrieve a paginated list of your research tasks. Use when you need to view or monitor research jobs with cursor-based pagination.
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List Webhooks
Tool to list all webhooks for Websets. Use when you need to view existing webhooks and paginate through results.
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Search
Web search via the Exa engine. Returns ranked results with optional per-result text/highlights/summary (set the nested `contents` object). For agent workflows prefer `contents.highlights=true` — 10× fewer tokens than…
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Update Import
Tool to update an import configuration by ID. Use when you need to modify an import's title or metadata.
Setup
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Trigger Access
What can start a Protege from this app.
Tool Access
What a Protege can do after it starts.
Connection scope
Prefer team for production.
Personal
Tied to one user—only when the workflow needs their account.
Chat
Team-scoped for supported chat surfaces.
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