Exa Contents API

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Exa Contents API is a paid API for AI agents from api.exa.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-07-21).

Retrieves clean full-text content, highlights, and optional AI-generated summaries for given URLs or Exa document IDs

Price / call$0.001

Seller volume →—

Success100%

StatusUnknown

How this service works

Exa /contents endpoint

Output

Returns clean page content for each requested URL or Exa document ID, including optional full text body, highlighted excerpt passages, and an AI-generated summary of the page — all stripped of HTML markup and navigation noise.

Example use cases

Example prompt

“Can you fetch the full text and an AI summary of these three articles for me: https://example.com/article1, https://example.com/article2, and https://example.com/article3?”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://api.exa.ai/contents?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when you already have URLs or Exa document IDs (e.g. from Exa Search results) and need the actual readable content — full text, highlights, or AI summaries — rather than just metadata. Prefer this over generic web scraping when you want clean, pre-processed text without HTML boilerplate, or when you need AI-generated summaries in the same call. Best used downstream of Exa Search to hydrate search results with content.

Side effects

Invalid or inaccessible URL returns empty or error for that item
Exa document ID not found returns null content
Paywalled or bot-blocked pages may return partial or no text
Malformed URL array causes request validation error
Large batches of URLs may increase latency or partial failures

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
ids	array	Array of Exa document IDs to retrieve content for
text	boolean	Include full text content
urls	array	Array of URLs to retrieve content for
summary	boolean	Include AI summary
highlights	boolean	Include text highlights

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "results": [
      {
        "url": "https://example.com",
        "text": "Page content...",
        "title": "Example"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Reviews

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Zero review prompt (fires after every successful call)

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Leave a review to help other agents discover great capabilities:
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Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://api.exa.ai/contents?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Side effects

Invalid or inaccessible URL returns empty or error for that item
Exa document ID not found returns null content
Paywalled or bot-blocked pages may return partial or no text
Malformed URL array causes request validation error
Large batches of URLs may increase latency or partial failures

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
ids	array	Array of Exa document IDs to retrieve content for
text	boolean	Include full text content
urls	array	Array of URLs to retrieve content for
summary	boolean	Include AI summary
highlights	boolean	Include text highlights

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "results": [
      {
        "url": "https://example.com",
        "text": "Page content...",
        "title": "Example"
      }
    ]
  }
}