Research web

Run job:web.research through the looot API: 1 provider, from $1.5 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python.

Research web.

Job id web.research, in Web search & research (Web data). As of 2026-10-01, 1 provider serve it through 1 tool. Run job:web.research and looot picks one of them; with fallback on, a miss moves on to the next. See Jobs.

Inputs

This job has one tool, so it takes that tool’s fields. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`excludeDomains`	array	no	The domains you want to exclude of the search. By default, don’t restrict the search.
`fromDate`	string	no	The date from which the search results should be considered, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). It must be before `toDate`, if provided, and later than 1970-01-01. Example: “2025-01-01”
`includeDomains`	array	no	The domains you want to search on. By default, don’t restrict the search. You can provide up to 100 domains.
`mode`	string	no	answer, auto (default), investigate or research.
`outputType`	string	yes	Output type: sourcedAnswer or structured. structured also needs structuredOutputSchema. Example: “sourcedAnswer”
`q`	string	yes	The natural language question for which you want to retrieve context. Example: “What is Microsoft’s 2024 revenue?”
`reasoningDepth`	string	no	S, M, L or XL. Price: S $0.25, M $0.50, L $1.50 (default), XL $2.50. Example: “S”
`structuredOutputSchema`	string	no	Required only when `outputType` is `structured`. Provide a JSON schema (as a string) representing the desired response format. The root must be of type `object`.
`toDate`	string	no	The date until which the search results should be considered, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). It must be later than `fromDate`, if provided, or than 1970-01-01. Example: “2025-06-30”

Providers and prices

Provider	Tool	Price
Linkup	`linkup-research-post`	$1.5 per call

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

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect linkup-research-post prints its fields.

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.research","input":{"q":"What is Microsoft'\''s 2024 revenue?","outputType":"sourcedAnswer","toDate":"2025-06-30","fromDate":"2025-01-01","excludeDomains":["wikipedia.org"],"includeDomains":["microsoft.com","agolution.com"],"reasoningDepth":"S"},"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.research",
    input: {
      q: "What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?",
      outputType: "sourcedAnswer",
      toDate: "2025-06-30",
      fromDate: "2025-01-01",
      excludeDomains: ["wikipedia.org"],
      includeDomains: ["microsoft.com", "agolution.com"],
      reasoningDepth: "S",
    },
    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.research",
        "input": {
            "q": "What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?",
            "outputType": "sourcedAnswer",
            "toDate": "2025-06-30",
            "fromDate": "2025-01-01",
            "excludeDomains": ["wikipedia.org"],
            "includeDomains": ["microsoft.com", "agolution.com"],
            "reasoningDepth": "S",
        },
        "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.research.