# Search the Web

**POST** `/search`

Search the web and retrieve relevant web page contents.

Base URL: `https://api.perplexity.ai`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `HTTPBearer` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Request body

Required. Media type: `application/json`

### Example request body

```json
{
  "country": "string",
  "last_updated_after_filter": "string",
  "last_updated_before_filter": "string",
  "max_results": 10,
  "max_tokens": 0,
  "max_tokens_per_page": 0,
  "query": "string",
  "search_after_date_filter": "string",
  "search_before_date_filter": "string",
  "search_context_size": "string",
  "search_domain_filter": [
    "string"
  ],
  "search_language_filter": [
    "string"
  ],
  "search_recency_filter": "day",
  "search_type": "web"
}
```

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | Successful Response | `application/json` |
| `422` | Validation Error | `application/json` |

### Example response: 200 — Successful Response

```json
{
  "id": "string",
  "results": [
    {
      "date": null,
      "last_updated": null,
      "snippet": "string",
      "title": "string",
      "url": "string"
    }
  ],
  "server_time": null
}
```

### Example response: 422 — Validation Error

```json
{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        0
      ],
      "msg": "string",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
}
```

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