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Real-time AI search engine with a powerful web search API, web crawling API, SERP API, and deep research tools. Search and extract structured content from across the entire internet.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • API key

MCP

Give your agent Exa tools

Every Exa action is exposed as an MCP tool on Pipedream's remote server. Point a client at it with your end user's ID and Connect resolves that user's Exa account for each tool call — you store no tokens.

// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
  new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
  {
    requestInit: {
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
        "x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
        "x-pd-environment": "production",
        "x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
        "x-pd-app-slug": "exa",
      },
    },
  },
)

const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)

const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()

// e.g. run Answer Question:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
  name: "exa-answer-question",
  arguments: {
    query: "Question",
    text: true,
  },
})

API PROXY

Call the Exa API directly

For an endpoint with no pre-built tool, the Connect proxy forwards your request to the Exa API with the connected user's credentials attached. You store no tokens and write no refresh logic.

const resp = await pd.proxy.get({
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  accountId: "apn_xxxxxxx",
  url: "https://api.exa.ai/search",
})

// Any allowed Exa endpoint works here. Pipedream attaches the
// connected account's credentials to the outgoing request.

SDK

Run Exa actions from your backend

Connect a user's Exa account once, then run Answer Question on their behalf from your own code — TypeScript, Python, or plain HTTP.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "exa-answer-question",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    exa: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    query: "Question",
    text: true,
  },
})

EVENTS

Exa triggers

Event sources your backend can deploy for users and receive through a webhook.

No Exa triggers are available yet.

MULTI-APP

Use Exa with other popular apps

Most products don't stop at one integration. Pair Exa with the other apps your users rely on, and ship use cases that span both.

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REFERENCE

App details

Reference metadata for the Exa connector in the Pipedream registry.

App slug
exa
Authentication
API key
Categories
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Actions
4
Triggers
0
API proxy
Available