You.com
Web and news search from any AI agent via the You.com Search API. 2 tools, API-key auth.
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- 1Start a free trial on cloud.anythingmcp.com.
- 2Click You.com in the connector store. Paste credentials when prompted.
- 3Mint an MCP API key and point your AI client at the generated MCP URL.
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Setting up You.com
From the connector definition itself: where to find the credentials, what they need to be allowed to do, and which API this adapter talks to.
This connector wraps the You.com Web Search API (ydc-index.io).
Setup:
- Create an API key at https://you.com/platform/api-keys (a key scoped to Web Search).
- Set
YDC_API_KEY.
Authentication: the key is sent as the X-API-Key header on every call, exactly as the API reference documents for POST https://ydc-index.io/v1/search.
One endpoint, two tools: the API exposes a single search endpoint, POST /v1/search, which returns web and news results together, organised under results.web and results.news.
youcom_search— returns the full response. The body takes aqueryplus optional controls:count(max results per section, up to 100),freshness(recency filter:day,week,month,year, or aYYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DDrange),country(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, e.g.US,DE), andlanguage(BCP 47, e.g.EN,DE). The query supports search operators:site:to pin a domain,filetype:,+term/-termfor required/excluded words, andAND/OR/NOTgrouping.youcom_news— calls the same endpoint and selects only theresults.newssection. Takes the samequery, plusfreshnessandcount. Use it when the user explicitly wants news coverage rather than general web results; two tools with different scopes are easier for a model to pick between than one tool plus a prose instruction.
Result shape: each hit carries a URL, title and snippet. Snippets are previews — for exact values on a page, the result url must be fetched separately; this connector does not extract page content.
Out of scope here: You.com also offers a hosted MCP server (https://api.you.com/mcp) and full-page extraction parameters on the POST body. This adapter sticks to the plain REST surface so it works like every other catalog adapter; users who want the richer toolset can bridge the MCP server with the built-in MCP connector type.
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