Snippets for Search - Seltz

Released: September 9, 2026 /search can now return snippets instead of, or alongside, its full content. Snippets are a document’s highest-scoring passages, in the order they appear in the document. Set fields.snippets to true to get focused excerpts without passing an entire document into your prompt or pipeline.

Highlights

Focused excerpts — Each document’s snippets array holds its highest-scoring passages, in the order they appear in the document.
Independent of content — fields selects each member on its own, so request snippets, content, or both in the same call.
Available on news and wikipedia — The companies and people scopes don’t produce snippets; snippets comes back as an empty array for those scopes even when requested.

Quick Start

from seltz import Seltz

client = Seltz()

response = client.search(
    "best ai search engines",
    fields={"snippets": True},
)

for document in response.documents:
    print(document.url)
    for snippet in document.snippets:
        print(f"  {snippet.text}")

import { Seltz } from "seltz";

const client = new Seltz();

const result = await client.search({
  query: "best ai search engines",
  fields: { snippets: true },
});

for (const doc of result.documents) {
  console.log(doc.url);
  for (const snippet of doc.snippets) {
    console.log(`  ${snippet.text}`);
  }
}

curl -X POST https://api.seltz.ai/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $SELTZ_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "best ai search engines", "fields": {"snippets": true}}'

Get Snippets

Requesting snippets alongside or instead of content

API Reference

Full fields parameter specification