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title: "Linkup / answer a question from the web"
description: "Linkup tool linkup-responses on looot: input fields, $0.006 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Answer a question with live web sources, in the OpenAI Responses format (model linkup-standard or linkup-deep).

- **Tool id:** `linkup-responses`
- **Provider:** [Linkup](/providers/linkup)
- **Job:** [Answer web](/reference/jobs/web-answer) (`web.answer`)
- **Price:** $0.006 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | string | yes | The natural language question for which you want to retrieve context. Example: "What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?" |
| `instructions` | string | no | Optional instructions to guide the response generation. It`s similar to a system message. Example: "You are a helpful assistant that provides concise answers." |
| `model` | string | yes | linkup-standard (faster) or linkup-deep (more thorough). Example: "linkup-standard" |
| `text` | string | no |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect linkup-responses` prints its fields.

## 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":"linkup-responses","input":{"input":"What is Microsoft'\''s 2024 revenue?","model":"linkup-standard","instructions":"You are a helpful assistant that provides concise answers."},"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: "linkup-responses",
    input: {
      input: "What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?",
      model: "linkup-standard",
      instructions: "You are a helpful assistant that provides concise answers.",
    },
    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": "linkup-responses",
        "input": {
            "input": "What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?",
            "model": "linkup-standard",
            "instructions": "You are a helpful assistant that provides concise answers.",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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