Search the web

You.com API

Web search API with its own index that returns ranked web and news results as JSON, with optional page content.

Addresses

REST API: https://ydc-index.io/v1/search (search, contents); https://api.you.com (answer, research, finance, router)10
MCP server: https://api.you.com/mcp8
OpenAPI spec: https://you.com/docs/openapi.json14
Docs for agents: https://you.com/docs/llms.txt; append .md to any docs URL for Markdown14
Status page: https://status.you.com17

Install

What	Command
Claude Code, remote MCP with API key	`claude mcp add --transport http youdotcom https://api.you.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <YDC_API_KEY>"`
Claude Code, remote MCP with OAuth	`claude mcp add --transport http youdotcom https://api.you.com/mcp`
Claude Code plugin	`/plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills` then `/plugin install you@you-com`
VS Code, keyless MCP	`code --add-mcp '{"name":"youdotcom","url":"https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free","type":"http"}'`
Local MCP (STDIO)	`npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp`
Python SDK	`pip install youdotcom`
Agent skills	`npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills`

Source8MCP server

Read from You.com (SuSea, Inc.)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/you-com.md