What is Snipex?
Snipex is a search API that returns relevant text snippets from each result — not just URLs and titles. When you run a web search, you get back a list of links. To actually use that information in an application, you have to fetch and parse each page, extract the relevant parts, and rank them — all of which takes time, infrastructure, and significant engineering effort. Snipex does all of that in a single API call.What you can build
- AI pipelines — feed grounded, relevant content directly into your prompts instead of raw web pages
- Research tools — surface specific information from across the web without building a crawler
- Knowledge bases — ingest fresh, sourced content at query time
- Answer engines — build products that cite and quote their sources
How it differs from a standard search API
| Standard search API | Snipex | |
|---|---|---|
| Returns | URLs, titles, short descriptions | URLs, titles + verbatim relevant passages |
| Requires page fetching | Yes — you must crawl each result | No — content is extracted for you |
| Relevance scoring | Result-level | Snippet-level (0.0–1.0 per passage) |
| Ready for RAG/AI use | No — needs preprocessing | Yes — plug directly into prompts |
Next steps
Quickstart
Make your first API call in under 2 minutes
Authentication
Get your API key and authenticate requests
Search depth
Understand precise, balanced, and exhaustive modes
API Reference
Full parameter and response documentation