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title: "Octen / Search the web"
description: "Octen tool octen-web-search on looot: input fields, $0.006 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches the live web and returns ranked results with highlights and optional full content. Send query; count, domains, text filters, time range and language refine it.

- **Tool id:** `octen-web-search`
- **Provider:** [Octen](/providers/octen)
- **Job:** [Search the web and get ranked results](/reference/jobs/web-search) (`web.search`)
- **Price:** $0.006 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `count` | integer | no | Results per search. Octen allows up to 100; bounded here to 20. |
| `end_time` | string | no | ISO 8601 end time for filtering results. |
| `exclude_domains` | array | no | Domains to exclude from results. |
| `exclude_text` | array | no | Strings that must not appear in the result page text. |
| `format` | string | no |   |
| `full_content` | object | no |   |
| `highlight` | object | no |   |
| `include_domains` | array | no | Domains to restrict results to. |
| `include_images` | boolean | no |   |
| `include_text` | array | no | Strings that must appear in the result page text. |
| `language` | array | no | ISO 639-1 language codes to restrict results to. |
| `query` | string | yes | The search query. Supports site:<domain> / -site:<domain> operators. Example: "open source vector databases" |
| `safesearch` | string | no |   |
| `start_time` | string | no | ISO 8601 start time for filtering results. |
| `time_basis` | string | no |   |
| `time_range` | string | no | Relative time window. Mutually exclusive with start_time/end_time. |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 3 real answers:

```txt
{ msg, code, data: { query, results: { url, title, authors, favicon, highlight, full_content, time_published, time_last_crawled }[] }, meta: { usage: { num_search_queries, full_content_tokens, full_content_extra_count }, latency, warning }, request_id }
```

## 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":"octen-web-search","input":{"query":"open source vector databases"},"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: "octen-web-search",
    input: {
      query: "open source vector databases",
    },
    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": "octen-web-search",
        "input": {
            "query": "open source vector databases",
        },
        "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.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/web-search).