Exa (Websets)
AI-powered web search API. Websets feature enables building custom lead lists from web data.
Tasks you can run with Exa (Websets) on Deepline
Exa (Websets) is wired into Deepline. 8 actions are available out of the box, runnable from the CLI or as a column step in an enrichment spreadsheet.
Quick start
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_answer:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonAvailable actions
Answer
Getting a direct, citation-backed answer from web results
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_answer:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonContents
Extracting page contents, summaries, and highlights from URLs
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_contents:{"urls":["https://example.com"]}' --jsonExa Company Search
Finding company-level signals and pages for target accounts through Exa entity search. Good for concept-driven company discovery, not for source-scoped or crisp filter-heavy ICP pulls.
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_company_search:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonExa People Search
Finding people-related pages and profile evidence. Especially useful on tiny startups where classic people databases are thin, but results are candidate entities that still need title/work-history validation.
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_people_search:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonExa Research
Longer-form research synthesis from web sources
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_research:{"instructions":"{{instructions}}"}' --jsonSearch Companies
Quick company search through the shared Deepline search interface
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_search_companies:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonSearch People
Quick people search through the shared Deepline search interface
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_search_people:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonSearch
General web search with Exa ranking and freshness controls. Best for concept-driven discovery and source-finding; expect noisy recall, and do not combine category-based entity search with includeDomains/includeText source scoping.
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_search:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --jsonWhat people are saying about Exa (Websets)
Real quotes from 5 cited sources across Reddit, HN, X, G2, and community forums.
“Best open web API to add on to workflows and simplest to use.”
“We use Exa's web search API to enrich unstructured data in the CRM.”
“Exa's results felt more semantically relevant out of the box.”
“It costs the same as what Perplexity charges for search-grounded queries, which is the same as Google charges for Gemini queries with search. The pricing model wouldn't be economical for my product's query volume.”
“On a 500-query independent evaluation, Exa scored 64.8% vs Perplexity's 60.1%, with the gap showing up most on semantic queries where keyword overlap isn't enough.”
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