Exa search

OpenClaw supports Exa AI as a

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```bash}
openclaw configure --section web
```

Config

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{
  plugins: {
    entries: {
      exa: {
        config: {
          webSearch: {
            apiKey: "exa-...", // optional if EXA_API_KEY is set
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
  tools: {
    web: {
      search: {
        provider: "exa",
      },
    },
  },
}

Environment alternative: set

Tool parameters

Content extraction

Exa can return extracted content alongside search results. Pass a

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await web_search({
  query: "transformer architecture explained",
  type: "neural",
  contents: {
    text: true, // full page text
    highlights: { numSentences: 3 }, // key sentences
    summary: true, // AI summary
  },
});

Search modes

Notes

• If no
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  contents
  option is provided, Exa defaults to
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  { highlights: true }
  so results include key sentence excerpts
• Results preserve
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  highlightScores
  and
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  summary
  fields from the Exa API response when available
• Result descriptions are resolved from highlights first, then summary, then full text — whichever is available
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  freshness
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  date_after
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  date_before
  cannot be combined — use one time-filter mode
• Up to 100 results can be returned per query (subject to Exa search-type limits)
• Results are cached for 15 minutes by default (configurable via
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  cacheTtlMinutes
  )
• Exa is an official API integration with structured JSON responses

Related

• Web Search overview -- all providers and auto-detection
• Brave Search -- structured results with country/language filters
• Perplexity Search -- structured results with domain filtering