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title: "Jina Search API / Search the web"
description: "Jina Reader API tool jina-search on looot: input fields, $0.0025 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches the web for a query and returns results in search-engine order, formatted for LLMs. Send q; num, page, gl, hl and location refine it.

- **Tool id:** `jina-search`
- **Provider:** [Jina Reader API](/providers/jina)
- **Job:** [Search the web and get ranked results](/reference/jobs/web-search) (`web.search`)
- **Price:** $0.0025 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `gl` | string | no | Two-letter country code for the search. |
| `hl` | string | no | Two-letter language code for the search. |
| `location` | string | no | City-level location the search should appear to originate from. |
| `num` | number | no | Maximum results to return. Using num may raise latency and token cost. |
| `page` | number | no | Result offset, for pagination. |
| `q` | string | yes | Search query. Example: "example keyword" |
| `accept` | string | no | Must be application/json -- forces the gateway to send Accept: application/json so Jina returns structured JSON instead of markdown. |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 2 real answers:

```txt
{ code, data: { url, date, title, usage: { tokens, outputTokens, scaledTokens, measuredTokens }, content, warning, external: { icon: { ... }, search: { ... }, EditURI: { ... }, license: { ... }, preload: { ... }, manifest: { ... }, alternate: { ... }, canonical: { ... }, dns-fetch: { ... }, preconnect: { ... }, dns-prefetch: { ... }, apple-touch-icon: { ... }, compression-dictionary: { ... } }, metadata: { lang, title, og:url, robots, bingbot, og:type, keywords, og:image, og:title, referrer: string[], viewport, generator, og:locale, al:ios:url, description, theme-color, twitter:url, color-sche... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect jina-search` prints all of it.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) 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:

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```bash curl
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":"jina-search","input":{"q":"example keyword"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
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: "jina-search",
    input: {
      q: "example keyword",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
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": "jina-search",
        "input": {
            "q": "example keyword",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:web.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/web-search).