Web Search Advanced - Personal Site Category

Tool Restriction (Critical)

ONLY use web_search_advanced_exa with category: "personal site" . Do NOT use other categories or tools.

Full Filter Support

The personal site category supports ALL available parameters:

Core

• query (required)

• numResults

• type ("auto", "fast", "deep", "neural")

Domain filtering

• includeDomains

• excludeDomains (e.g., exclude Medium if you want independent blogs)

Date filtering (ISO 8601)

• startPublishedDate / endPublishedDate

• startCrawlDate / endCrawlDate

Text filtering

• includeText (must contain ALL)

• excludeText (exclude if ANY match)

Array size restriction: includeText and excludeText only support single-item arrays. Multi-item arrays (2+ items) cause 400 errors. To match multiple terms, put them in the query string or run separate searches.

Content extraction

• textMaxCharacters / contextMaxCharacters

• enableSummary / summaryQuery

• enableHighlights / highlightsNumSentences / highlightsPerUrl / highlightsQuery

Additional

• additionalQueries

• livecrawl / livecrawlTimeout

• subpages / subpageTarget

• useful for exploring portfolio sites

Token Isolation (Critical)

Never run Exa searches in main context. Always spawn Task agents:

• Agent calls web_search_advanced_exa with category: "personal site"

• Agent merges + deduplicates results before presenting

• Agent returns distilled output (brief markdown or compact JSON)

• Main context stays clean regardless of search volume

When to Use

Use this category when you need:

• Individual expert opinions and experiences

• Personal blog posts on technical topics

• Portfolio websites

• Independent analysis (not corporate content)

• Deep dives and tutorials from practitioners

Examples

Technical blog posts:

web_search_advanced_exa { "query": "building production LLM applications lessons learned", "category": "personal site", "numResults": 15, "type": "deep", "enableSummary": true }

Recent posts on a topic:

web_search_advanced_exa { "query": "Rust async runtime comparison", "category": "personal site", "startPublishedDate": "2025-01-01", "numResults": 10, "type": "auto" }

Exclude aggregators:

web_search_advanced_exa { "query": "startup founder lessons", "category": "personal site", "excludeDomains": ["medium.com", "substack.com"], "numResults": 15, "type": "auto" }

Output Format

Return:

• Results (title, author/site name, date, key insights)

• Sources (URLs)

• Notes (author expertise, potential biases, depth of coverage)