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Parallel Search API

Search returns ranked URLs with extended excerpts suitable for LLM consumption. Inputs are a natural-language objective and optional keyword queries. Source policies allow including or excluding specific domains and have configurable output sizes. The returned extended snippets contain dense, relevant information from relevant pages.- Result: ranked list with URL, title, and long text excerpts

Parallel Search API is one of 8 APIs that Parallel publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 0.1.2.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.parallel.ai.

1 operations 1 paths 11 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
0.1.2
Base URL
https://api.parallel.ai
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Parallel Search API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as x-api-key (ApiKeyAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Search 1

Search returns ranked URLs with extended excerpts suitable for LLM consumption. Inputs are a natural-language objective and optional keyword queries. Source policies allow includi…

POST
/v1/search
Search
v1_search_v1_search_post body → 200422

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are V1SearchRequest (7 properties), AdvancedSearchSettings (5 properties), V1SearchResponse (5 properties), V1WebSearchResult (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

UsageItem
object
Usage item for a single operation.
2 properties 2 required
V1SearchRequest
object
Search request.
7 properties 1 required
V1ExcerptSettings
object
Optional settings for returning relevant excerpts.
1 property
AdvancedSearchSettings
object
Advanced search configuration. These settings may impact result quality and latency unless used carefully. See https://docs.parallel.ai/search/advanced-search-…
5 properties
SourcePolicy
object
Source policy for web search results. This policy governs which sources are allowed/disallowed in results.
3 properties
Warning
object
Human-readable message for a task.
3 properties 2 required
FetchPolicy
object
Policy for live fetching web results.
3 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Response object used for non-200 status codes.
2 properties 2 required
V1SearchResponse
object
Search response.
5 properties 3 required
Error
object
An error message.
3 properties 2 required
V1WebSearchResult
object
A single search result from the web search API.
4 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

parallel-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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