Exa (Formerly Metaphor)

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Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API Integrations

Build and run workflows using the Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API. Use 1000s of source-available triggers and actions across 2,000+ apps. Or write custom code to integrate any app or API in seconds.

Overview

The Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API enables you to enrich your applications with machine learning-powered insights and data processing capabilities. With Exa, you can perform advanced data analysis, extract meaningful patterns, and automate decision-making processes within your projects. By integrating this API with Pipedream, you can create seamless workflows that leverage these intelligent features alongside other services to streamline your operations, enhance data intelligence, and drive innovation.

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    metaphor: {
      type: "app",
      app: "metaphor",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const data = {
      "query": `test`,
    }
    return await axios($, {
      method: "post",
      url: `https://api.metaphor.systems/search`,
      headers: {
        "accept": `application/json`,
        "Content-Type": `application/json`,
        "x-api-key": `${this.metaphor.$auth.api_key}`,
      },
      data,
    })
  },
})

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HTTP / Webhook
HTTP / Webhook
Get a unique URL where you can send HTTP or webhook requests
Node
Node
Anything you can do with Node.js, you can do in a Pipedream workflow. This includes using most of npm's 400,000+ packages.
Python
Python
Anything you can do in Python can be done in a Pipedream Workflow. This includes using any of the 350,000+ PyPi packages available in your Python powered workflows.
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are the makers of popular models like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Whisper.
Premium
Salesforce (REST API)
Salesforce (REST API)
Web services API for interacting with Salesforce
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HubSpot
HubSpot
HubSpot's CRM platform contains the marketing, sales, service, operations, and website-building software you need to grow your business.
Premium
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM is an online Sales CRM software that manages your sales, marketing, and support in one CRM platform.
Premium
Stripe
Stripe
Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Shopify Developer App
Shopify Developer App
Shopify is a user-friendly e-commerce platform that helps small businesses build an online store and sell online through one streamlined dashboard.
Premium
WooCommerce
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress.
Premium
Snowflake
Snowflake
A data warehouse built for the cloud
Premium
MongoDB
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program.
Supabase
Supabase
Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative.
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
Premium
AWS
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
Premium
Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Send marketing and transactional email through the Twilio SendGrid platform with the Email API, proprietary mail transfer agent, and infrastructure for scalable delivery.
Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service provider that can integrate into any application for high volume email automation
Premium
Klaviyo
Klaviyo
Email Marketing and SMS Marketing Platform
Premium
Zendesk
Zendesk
Zendesk is award-winning customer service software trusted by 200K+ customers. Make customers happy via text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, social media.
Premium
ServiceNow
ServiceNow
The smarter way to workflow
Notion
Notion
Notion is a new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.
Slack
Slack
Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has communities, events, chats, channels, meetings, storage, tasks, and calendars in one place.

Example Use Cases

  • Automated Content Analysis and Categorization: Connect the Exa API to a content management system (CMS) on Pipedream. As new content is published—whether it be articles, posts, or reviews—the workflow triggers, sending the content to Exa for analysis. The API categorizes the content and extracts key topics, which you can then use to automatically tag and sort the content within the CMS or recommend related articles.

  • Customer Feedback Sentiment Analysis: Integrate the Exa API with a customer support platform like Zendesk. Whenever a new customer ticket is submitted, the workflow kicks off, passing the ticket's text to Exa for sentiment analysis. Based on the sentiment score, the workflow can prioritize tickets, escalate urgent matters, or provide insights to the support team on the customer's emotional tone, helping them tailor their response.

  • Real-Time Market Trend Monitoring: Combine the Exa API with a platform like Google Sheets on Pipedream. Set up a workflow that periodically collects social media posts or news articles relevant to your business from various sources. Exa analyzes this data for trends, sentiment, and key phrases, and then the workflow populates a Google Sheet with these insights, providing a real-time dashboard of market trends that can inform strategic decisions.

Search with Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API on New Requests from HTTP / Webhook API
HTTP / Webhook + Exa (Formerly Metaphor)
 
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Search with Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API on New Item in Feed from RSS API
RSS + Exa (Formerly Metaphor)
 
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Search with Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API on New Message (Instant) from Discord API
Discord + Exa (Formerly Metaphor)
 
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Search with Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API on New Message In Channels (Instant) from Slack API
Slack + Exa (Formerly Metaphor)
 
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Search with Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API on New Message in Channel from Discord Bot API
Discord Bot + Exa (Formerly Metaphor)
 
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Find Similar Links with the Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API

Find similar links to the link provided. See the documentation](https://docs.metaphor.systems/reference/findsimilar)

 
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Get Contents of Documents with the Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API

Retrieve contents of documents based on a list of document IDs. See the documentation. It is used to instantly get content for documents, given the IDs of the documents. We currently support extracts - the first 1000 tokens (~750 words) of parsed HTML for a site. Note that each piece of content retrieved costs 1 request. Also note that instant is a little bit of a lie if you are using keyword search, in which case contents might take a few seconds to retrieve.

 
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Search with the Exa (Formerly Metaphor) API

Perform a search with a Metaphor prompt-engineered query and retrieve a list of relevant results. See the documentation

 
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Authentication

Exa (Formerly Metaphor) uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Exa (Formerly Metaphor) account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Exa (Formerly Metaphor) APIs in both code and no-code steps.

Navigate to the overview tab to find your API key, and enter it below.