# API Used as Web Search

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-used-as-web-search/84>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-used-as-web-search/84 "2025-05-15T00:14:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-used-as-web-search/84/1 "2025-05-15T00:14:29Z")

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Hi everyone, we are using perplexity API as a web-search component in our agent app. What is the best practice of calling it as websearch? usually source links returned in API response are fewer than links returned in webapp. How can we maximize number of links perplexity searches for our query?

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-used-as-web-search/84/2 "2025-05-15T00:14:31Z")

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We are also having same observations and wanted to learn more on this.