Datura AI Search

Search web using AI-powered web searches using Datura AI Search over multiple data sources!

🚀 Overview

This Apify actor empowers you to execute AI-driven searches from Datura.ai, gathering relevant information from diverse sources such as web pages, research papers (ArXiv), social media discussions (Twitter, Reddit), news platforms (Hacker News), and more. Leverage advanced filtering and tool selection to retrieve precisely the content you need.

🛠 Features

• Multi-Source Search: Search across web pages, academic papers, social media, and other curated sources.
• Flexible Tool Selection: Enable or disable search tools like Web Search, ArXiv, Hacker News, Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter based on your needs.
• Customizable Parameters: Configure search type, query prompts, AI model selection, response order, and date filters.
• Streaming Response Processing: Handle streaming API responses for efficient processing of large datasets.
• Secure & Configurable: Use environment variables for secure API key management and tailor your requests with customizable timeouts.

📌 How to Use

1️⃣ Open the Apify Actor UI 2️⃣ Configure Input Parameters in the provided schema (e.g., query prompts, search type, enabled tools, AI model, and date filters) 3️⃣ Run the Actor to execute your search queries 4️⃣ Review and Download Results in JSON format for further analysis

📌 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
searchType	String	✅ Yes	Type of search to perform. Options: "aisearch", "linksearch", or "twittersearch" (default: "aisearch").
prompt	Array	✅ Yes	List of search queries. Each query should be a string.
tools	Array	✅ Yes	List of search tools to enable. Options: "Web Search", "ArXiv Search", "Hacker News Search", "Reddit Search", "Twitter Search", "Wikipedia Search", "YouTube Search".
model	String	✅ Yes	AI model to use. Options: "NOVA", "ORBIT", or "HORIZON" (default: "NOVA").
response_order	String	✅ Yes	Preferred response format. Options: "LINKS_FIRST" or "TEXT_FIRST" (default: "LINKS_FIRST").
date_filter	String	✅ Yes	Date filter for search results. Options: "PAST_24_HOURS", "PAST_WEEK", "PAST_MONTH", "PAST_YEAR", or "ALL_TIME" (default: "PAST_24_HOURS").
streaming	Boolean	✅ Yes	Enable streaming response processing (default: false).

📥 Expected Output

The actor outputs a JSON file containing the results of your search queries. Each result object includes the original prompt and the corresponding search output from the enabled tools. Below are three example output formats based on the search type:

1. AI Search Output Example

This output aggregates results from multiple tools (e.g., Web Search, ArXiv Search):

    [
    {
        "prompt": "Latest advancements in AI research",
        "result": {
                "wikipedia_search_results": [
                    {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "title": "Example Title",
                        "url": "https://example.com",
                        "link": "https://example.com/link",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the search result.",
                        "summary_description": "This is a summary description of the search result."
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "youtube_search_results": [
                    {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "title": "Example Title",
                        "url": "https://example.com",
                        "link": "https://example.com/link",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the search result.",
                        "summary_description": "This is a summary description of the search result."
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "arxiv_search_results": [
                    {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "title": "Example Title",
                        "url": "https://example.com",
                        "link": "https://example.com/link",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the search result.",
                        "summary_description": "This is a summary description of the search result."
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "reddit_search_results": [
                    {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "title": "Example Title",
                        "url": "https://example.com",
                        "link": "https://example.com/link",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the search result.",
                        "summary_description": "This is a summary description of the search result."
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "hacker_news_search_results": [
                    {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "title": "Example Title",
                        "url": "https://example.com",
                        "link": "https://example.com/link",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the search result.",
                        "summary_description": "This is a summary description of the search result."
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "text_chunks": [
                    {
                    "twitter_summary": [
                        "<string>"
                    ]
                    }
                ],
                "completion_links": [
                    "<string>"
                ],
                "search_completion_links": [
                    "<string>"
                ],
                "completion": {
                    "key_tweets": [
                    {
                        "text": "This is an example tweet text.",
                        "url": "https://twitter.com/example_tweet"
                    }
                    ],
                    "twitter_summary": "This is an example Twitter summary.",
                    "summary": "This is an example summary."
                },
                "miner_link_scores": {}
                }
    }
    ]

2. Link Search Output Example

This output emphasizes detailed link information, including positions, redirects, and display URLs:

    [
    {
        "prompt": "Top AI startups in 2025",
        "result": [
                {
                    "youtube_search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    },
                    "hacker_news_search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    },
                    "reddit_search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    },
                    "arxiv_search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    },
                    "wikipedia_search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    },
                    "search_results": {
                    "organic_results": [
                        {
                        "position": 123,
                        "title": "Example Web Page Title",
                        "link": "https://example.com",
                        "redirect_link": "https://example.com/redirect",
                        "displayed_link": "https://example.com/displayed",
                        "favicon": "https://example.com/favicon.ico",
                        "date": "17 hours ago",
                        "snippet": "This is an example snippet from the web page.",
                        "snippet_highlighted_words": [
                            "example",
                            "snippet"
                        ],
                        "source": "On Location",
                        "inline": [
                            {
                            "link": "https://example.com",
                            "title": "Example Web Page Title"
                            }
                        ],
                        "summary_description": "List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia"
                        }
                    ]
                    }
                }
        // ... additional link results if applicable
        ]
    }
    ]

3. Twitter Search Output Example

This output shows a detailed tweet result, including user information and tweet metrics:

    [
    {
        "prompt": "Recent tweets on AI innovation",
        "result": [
                {
                "miner_tweets": [
                    {
                    "user": {
                        "id": "123456789",
                        "url": "https://twitter.com/example_user",
                        "name": "John Doe",
                        "username": "johndoe",
                        "created_at": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z",
                        "description": "This is an example user description.",
                        "favourites_count": 100,
                        "followers_count": 1500,
                        "listed_count": 10,
                        "media_count": 50,
                        "profile_image_url": "https://example.com/profile.jpg",
                        "statuses_count": 500,
                        "verified": true,
                        "is_blue_verified": true,
                        "can_dm": true,
                        "can_media_tag": true,
                        "location": "Jamaica"
                    },
                    "id": "987654321",
                    "text": "This is an example tweet.",
                    "reply_count": 10,
                    "retweet_count": 5,
                    "like_count": 100,
                    "view_count": 1000,
                    "quote_count": 2,
                    "impression_count": 1500,
                    "bookmark_count": 3,
                    "url": "https://twitter.com/example_tweet",
                    "created_at": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z",
                    "media": [],
                    "is_quote_tweet": false,
                    "is_retweet": false,
                    "lang": "en",
                    "conversation_id": "1892717639455109181",
                    "in_reply_to_screen_name": "null",
                    "in_reply_to_status_id": "null",
                    "in_reply_to_user_id": "null",
                    "quoted_status_id": "null",
                    "quote": "null",
                    "entities": {},
                    "summary_description": "This is a summary of the tweet."
                    }
                ]
                }
        ]
    }
    ]

Each output type is structured to match the specific requirements of the search query and the enabled tools, allowing you to integrate and process the results according to your project needs.

📈 Use Cases

💡 Research & Development: Gather the latest scientific research and breakthroughs in AI. 💡 Market Analysis: Monitor trending topics across the web and social media platforms. 💡 Competitive Intelligence: Track competitors and industry news across multiple sources. 💡 Content Aggregation: Combine results from various platforms for comprehensive insights.

🚀 Get Started

1️⃣ Open the Apify Actor UI 2️⃣ Configure your input parameters according to your search needs 3️⃣ Run the actor and let it perform the AI-powered search 4️⃣ Download and analyze the JSON results for actionable insights