Answer web

Run job:web.answer through the looot API: 2 providers, from $0.005 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python.

Answer web.

Job id web.answer, in Web search & research (Web data). As of 2026-10-01, 2 providers serve it through 2 tools. Run job:web.answer and looot picks one of them; with fallback on, a miss moves on to the next. See Jobs.

Inputs

Fields the job’s tools take, most shared first. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

Name	Type	Taken by	Required by	Description
`model`	string	2 of 2	1	Model used to generate the answer.
`text`	boolean	2 of 2	0	Also return full page text for each citation.
`input`	string	1 of 2	1	The natural language question for which you want to retrieve context. Example: “What is Microsoft’s 2024 revenue?”
`instructions`	string	1 of 2	0	Optional instructions to guide the response generation. It`s similar to a system message. Example: “You are a helpful assistant that provides concise answers.”
`outputSchema`	object	1 of 2	0	JSON Schema draft-07 for structured output instead of a plain string answer.
`query`	string	1 of 2	1	Natural-language question or instructions. Example: “What is the latest valuation of SpaceX?”
`systemPrompt`	string	1 of 2	0	Additional instructions guiding generated output/agent behavior.

Providers and prices

Provider	Tool	Price
Exa	`exa-answer`	$0.005 per call
Linkup	`linkup-responses`	$0.006 per call

A call that fails at the provider costs $0. See What’s free.

Output

Each provider answers in its own shape. Shape of the run’s result from exa-answer, checked against 1 real answer:

{ answer, citations: { id, url, title, publishedDate }[], requestId, costDollars: { total } }

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"job:web.answer","input":{"query":"What is the latest valuation of SpaceX?"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "job:web.answer",
    input: {
      query: "What is the latest valuation of SpaceX?",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "job:web.answer",
        "input": {
            "query": "What is the latest valuation of SpaceX?",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To pin one provider, send its tool id as endpointId instead of job:web.answer.