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DeepSeek Search and Fetch APIs provide live web content for agents

api-docs.deepseek.com 6 min read Editor score 7/10

Search returns structured results and Fetch returns page content as Markdown; the listing prices them at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests. Agents and RAG systems can use the APIs for live web retrieval without building those endpoints themselves.

What

DeepSeek's Search API and Fetch API give agents and RAG applications access to live web content through raw JSON APIs.

How

Search returns structured results for a query; Fetch retrieves one web page and returns its content as Markdown.

Why it matters

The APIs provide a way to add live web search and page retrieval to agent and RAG systems using DeepSeek API bearer authentication.

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