POST
/
preview
Create Preview
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.brightdata.com/deep-lookup/v1/preview \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "prompt": "Find all AI startups founded after 2020 with more than 50 employees"
}'
{
  "preview_id": "dld_meu4lhla1lj08i6p30",
  "sample_count": 10,
  "estimated_total": 347,
  "columns": [
    "company_name",
    "website",
    "founded_year",
    "employee_count"
  ],
  "preview_data": {
    "company_name": "Anthropic",
    "website": "anthropic.com",
    "founded_year": 2021,
    "employee_count": 160
  }
}

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

Use your Bright Data API Key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

How to authenticate:

  1. Obtain your API Key from the Bright Data account settings at https://brightdata.com/cp/setting/users
  2. Include the API Key in the Authorization header of your requests
  3. Format: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Example:

Authorization: Bearer b5648e1096c6442f60a6c4bbbe73f8d2234d3d8324554bd6a7ec8f3f251f07df

Learn how to get your Bright Data API key: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/authentication

Body

application/json

Response

200 - application/json

Preview created successfully

The response is of type object.