Exa Make integrationAutomate Exa with Make.
Can a Make scenario search the web with Exa and hand the results to your other tools? Yes. The Exa Make integration gives you 4 modules: three searches and one open API call. This guide is for ops and marketing builders, and it walks you from the connection to a tested first scenario.
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What does the Exa Make integration let you automate?
The Exa Make integration links your Exa account to Make, a no-code tool where you chain apps into a scenario (the automation you build). Once linked, a scenario can send a query to Exa, read the matching pages, or look for sites close to a given URL, then pass every result to the next step.
Watch a market without reading it by hand. A content team keeps a list of topics in another app. For each topic, Perform a Search asks Exa for relevant results, and the scenario files them where the team already works. Each result travels as a bundle, meaning one item passed from one module to the next.
Map the neighbors of a competitor. A growth marketer drops a URL into the scenario and Search Similar Links returns sites that look like it. That list becomes a prospect sheet or a benchmark to review.
Fetch the text behind known documents. When you already hold Exa document IDs, List Contents brings back their content in one pass, ready for a summary step or an archive.
Exa has no trigger in Make, so nothing starts on its own from the Exa side: the scenario runs on a schedule or after another app. The Make documentation for Exa is itself flagged as AI generated, so check any detail that matters with Exa directly. For anything the three searches do not cover, Make an API Call reaches the rest of the Exa API. If you are weighing tools, read n8n vs Make, and when a scenario breaks, Make troubleshooting lists the usual fixes.
How do you connect your Exa account to Make?
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Copy your Exa API key
You need an active Exa account first. In Exa, open your account settings, go to the API keys section and copy the key shown on screen. Keep it at hand: Make asks for it in a moment, and it is what proves the scenario may act for you.
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Add an Exa module in your scenario
Log in to Make, add any Exa module to your scenario and click Create a connection. A connection is your Exa account linked to Make once, then reused by every Exa module you add later, so you only do this step one time.
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Name it and paste the key
The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when you run several Exa accounts. Paste the API key you copied, or follow the on-screen instructions. The connection now appears in the module.
Build your first scenario with Exa
GoalWhen a new topic lands in the tool that holds your list, Make asks Exa for relevant results and returns them to you.
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Create the scenario
From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Here that first module belongs to the app that holds your topics, since Exa has no trigger of its own.
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Add Perform a Search
Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Exa and pick Perform a Search. Select the connection you created, or click Create a connection if this is your first Exa module.
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Map the query
Fill the module fields and map the topic coming from the previous module into the query. Mapping means you drag a value from an earlier step instead of typing it, so each topic gets its own search.
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Test with Run once
Click Run once to execute the scenario one time. Open the bubble above Perform a Search and read the bundles it received: each one is a result Exa found for your topic.
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Schedule and switch it on
Set the schedule on the first module, which is every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. From now on Make checks for new topics on that rhythm and sends each one to Exa.
What can each Exa module do in Make?
Exa gives you 4 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Make an API Call
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API Call.”
This module lets your scenario reach any endpoint of the Exa API with the connection you already set up, so a feature missing from the list does not block you.
List Contents
SearchIn Make“Retrieves a list of content of documents based on a list of document IDs.”
Hand it a list of Exa document IDs and it gives you back the content of each document, ready to summarize, store or send on.
Perform a Search
SearchIn Make“Performs a search with a Exa prompt-engineered query and retrieves a list of relevant results.”
Your query goes to Exa, which tunes it for its own engine, and you receive a list of relevant results to route anywhere in the scenario.
Search Similar Links
SearchIn Make“Returns a list of similar links to the URL provided.”
Give it one URL and Exa answers with links that resemble it, a quick way to widen a list of competitors, partners or reference sites.
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