> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Contents Job Status > Reference for polling async content extraction job status via GET /v1/contents/jobs/{job_id}. ## OpenAPI ````yaml GET /v1/contents/jobs/{job_id} openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Valyu API version: 2.2.0 description: > The search API built for AI agents. One API that gives your AI unified access to web search, academic papers, financial data, SEC filings, clinical trials, patents, and 36+ proprietary data sources. ## Products | Product | Endpoint | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | **Search** | `POST /v1/search` | Multi-source search across web and proprietary datasets | | **Contents** | `POST /v1/contents` | Extract clean, structured content from URLs | | **Answer** | `POST /v1/answer` | AI-powered answers with real-time search | | **DeepResearch** | `POST /v1/deepresearch/tasks` | Async research agents for comprehensive analysis | | **Datasources** | `GET /v1/datasources` | Discover available data sources and their schemas | ## Authentication All endpoints require an API key passed via the `X-API-Key` header. Get your key at [platform.valyu.ai](https://platform.valyu.ai). ``` X-API-Key: your_api_key_here ``` ## Pricing Valyu uses transparent, pay-per-use pricing: - **Search**: CPM-based (cost per mille tokens retrieved) - **Contents**: $0.001 per URL extracted, +$0.001 with AI features - **Answer**: $0.10 per request + variable search and AI costs - **DeepResearch**: Fixed per-task pricing by mode ($0.10 - $15.00) See [docs.valyu.ai](https://docs.valyu.ai) for full pricing details. ## SDKs - [Python SDK](https://pypi.org/project/valyu/) - `pip install valyu` - [TypeScript SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/valyu) - `npm install valyu` contact: name: Valyu Support url: https://valyu.ai email: support@valyu.ai x-logo: url: https://valyu.ai/logo.png altText: Valyu servers: - url: https://api.valyu.ai description: Production security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Search description: >- Search across web, academic, financial, and proprietary data sources. Returns results ready for RAG pipelines, AI agents, and applications. externalDocs: description: Search API Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/search/quickstart - name: Contents description: >- Extract clean, structured content from web pages at scale. Supports batch processing, AI-powered summaries, structured extraction via JSON schemas, and async jobs for large URL sets. externalDocs: description: Contents API Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/content-extraction - name: Answer description: >- Get AI-powered answers grounded in real-time search results. The Answer API searches across web, academic, and financial sources, then uses AI to generate a readable response via Server-Sent Events streaming. externalDocs: description: Answer API Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/answer-api - name: DeepResearch description: >- Async research agents that perform comprehensive, multi-step research. DeepResearch searches multiple sources, analyzes content, and generates detailed reports with citations. Tasks run in the background and can take minutes to complete. externalDocs: description: DeepResearch Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/deepresearch - name: Batches description: >- Run multiple DeepResearch tasks in parallel with shared configuration, unified monitoring, and aggregated cost tracking. externalDocs: description: Batch API Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/deepresearch-batch-quickstart - name: Datasources description: >- Discover available data sources and their schemas. A tool manifest for AI agents - instead of hardcoding knowledge of available datasets, agents can query this API to discover sources, filter by category, and use `example_queries` for few-shot prompting. externalDocs: description: Datasources Guide url: https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/datasources externalDocs: description: Complete API Documentation url: https://docs.valyu.ai paths: /v1/contents/jobs/{job_id}: get: tags: - Contents summary: Poll async content extraction job status description: >- Check the status and retrieve results of an async content extraction job. operationId: getContentsJob parameters: - name: job_id in: path required: true schema: type: string description: The job ID returned by the async contents request. example: cj_a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8 responses: '200': description: Job status and results (when complete). content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentsJobResponse' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound' '500': $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError' components: schemas: ContentsJobResponse: type: object description: Async job status and results. required: - success - job_id - status - urls_total - urls_processed - urls_failed properties: success: type: boolean description: Whether the request succeeded. example: true job_id: type: string description: Unique identifier for the async job. example: cj_a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8 status: type: string description: |- Current job status. - `pending` - Job created, not yet started - `processing` - URLs are being processed - `completed` - All URLs processed successfully - `partial` - Processing finished with some failures - `failed` - All URLs failed enum: - pending - processing - completed - partial - failed example: completed urls_total: type: integer description: Total number of URLs to process. example: 25 urls_processed: type: integer description: Number of URLs successfully processed so far. example: 23 urls_failed: type: integer description: Number of URLs that failed processing. example: 2 created_at: type: integer description: Job creation time as Unix timestamp in milliseconds. example: 1707000000000 updated_at: type: integer description: Last update time as Unix timestamp in milliseconds. example: 1707000060000 current_batch: type: integer description: >- Current batch being processed. Only present when `status` is `"processing"`. example: 3 total_batches: type: integer description: >- Total number of batches. Only present when `status` is `"processing"`. example: 5 results: type: array description: >- Extraction results. Only present when `status` is `"completed"` or `"partial"`. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentResult' actual_cost_dollars: type: number description: Total cost in USD. Only present when processing is complete. example: 0.023 error: type: string description: >- Error message. Only present when `status` is `"failed"` or `"partial"`. ContentResult: type: object description: Extracted content from a single URL. required: - url - status properties: url: type: string format: uri description: The URL that was processed. example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing status: type: string description: Processing status for this URL. enum: - success - failed example: success title: type: string description: Page title. Present when `status` is `"success"`. example: Quantum computing - Wikipedia content: description: >- Extracted content. Markdown string when `data_type` is `"unstructured"`, JSON object when `data_type` is `"structured"`. Present when `status` is `"success"`. oneOf: - type: string description: Markdown-formatted content. - type: object description: Structured data matching the provided JSON schema. example: |- # Quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation... description: type: string description: Meta description of the page. example: >- Quantum computing is a type of computation that harnesses quantum mechanical phenomena. source: type: string description: Always `"web"` for content extraction. example: web price: type: number description: Cost in USD for extracting this URL. example: 0.001 length: type: integer description: Character count of the `content` field. example: 24500 data_type: type: string description: >- `"unstructured"` for text content, `"structured"` when JSON schema extraction succeeded. enum: - unstructured - structured example: unstructured source_type: type: string description: Classification of the content type. enum: - website - pdf - txt - json - xml - sitemap - csv example: website publication_date: type: string description: Publication date in `YYYY-MM-DD` format, or empty string if unknown. example: '2024-03-15' id: type: string description: Identifier for this result (same as `url`). example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing image_url: type: object description: Image URLs found on the page, keyed by index. additionalProperties: type: string format: uri example: '0': https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/quantum.png screenshot_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true description: Screenshot URL if `screenshot` was enabled. `null` otherwise. example: null summary: description: >- AI-generated summary or structured extraction result. Only present when `summary` was enabled in the request. oneOf: - type: string - type: object additionalProperties: true summary_success: type: boolean description: >- Whether AI processing succeeded. Only present when `summary` was enabled. structured_metadata: type: object description: >- Metadata from structured data extraction. Only present when `data_type` is `"structured"`. additionalProperties: true error: type: string description: Error message. Only present when `status` is `"failed"`. example: 'Failed to fetch URL: connection timeout' Error: type: object description: Standard error response. required: - success - error properties: success: type: boolean description: Always `false` for error responses. example: false error: type: string description: Human-readable error message describing what went wrong. example: Invalid request parameters responses: Unauthorized: description: Missing or invalid API key. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: example: summary: Invalid API key value: success: false error: Invalid API key Forbidden: description: The API key does not have permission for this operation. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: example: summary: Permission denied value: success: false error: API key does not have inference permission NotFound: description: The requested resource was not found. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: example: summary: Resource not found value: success: false error: Task not found InternalServerError: description: An unexpected error occurred on the server. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: example: summary: Internal error value: success: false error: Internal server error. Please try again later. securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-Key description: >- API key for authentication. Get yours at [platform.valyu.ai](https://platform.valyu.ai). ````