DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs to agents

17 October 2026DeepSeekWeb search and APIs

Structured search and Markdown extraction become two primitives available with the same API authentication.

API available

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Search uses `POST /v1/tools/search` and returns structured results; Fetch uses `POST /v1/tools/fetch` to read a page as Markdown.
Both APIs use the usual DeepSeek bearer token and api.deepseek.com domain.
Search accepts 1–50 results and site, language and date operators; `need_content` enables content in results.

Search engines become components directly usable by assistants.

Check retrieved sources and dates rather than trusting summaries alone.

Belgium/EEA: the source specifies no explicit regional exclusion; availability depends on the account, plan and service region.

Index size, freshness and spam filtering are vendor claims. No pricing, recall test or regional access test is inferred from the announcement.