> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://wiki.darknetsearch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# API guides

> What the DarknetSearch API does, and which guide to use for your goal.

The DarknetSearch API puts our dark-web and breach intelligence in your own tools: search leaked credentials, sweep dark-web and paste sources, monitor your assets, and pull an organization's risk and exposure — all over a straightforward REST API.

These guides are organized by **goal**, in six sections. Each section opens with an **overview** that points you to the right guide; each guide explains what to call and why, then links into the [API reference](https://client-api.leak.center/scalar-docs/), where you can see every parameter and run it live. New here? Start with **Get started**, then jump to the job you came to do.

## Start here

<Card title="Get started" icon="rocket" href="/api/guides/authentication">
  Wire the API into your stack: get a bearer token, read your organization, and set up where results are delivered — email and webhooks. Do these once; everything else assumes them.
</Card>

## Then, by goal

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/api/guides/search-overview">
    Find what's out there. Search broad across every source, deep into one of 14 indexed sources, or live against the open and dark web.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leaked credentials" icon="unlock" href="/api/guides/credential-exposure">
    The number-one job: find your organization's exposed passwords. Four approaches — Raw Data, the ULP feed, Filtered credentials, and Stealer logs — shaped for different jobs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Assess & report" icon="chart-simple" href="/api/guides/assess-overview">
    Turn findings into a picture: a scored risk profile, leak statistics and trends, peer benchmarks, and shareable PDF reports.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitor" icon="bell" href="/api/guides/alerts">
    Stay ahead of new exposure. Hand an asset to a data source and let it run — new matches recorded and delivered to email or a webhook as they appear.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Downloads & exports" icon="download" href="/api/guides/downloads-exports">
    Move results into files. Use the export service for result sets, and reserve original leak-file downloads for small source files.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The endpoint reference

Every guide links into the [API reference](https://client-api.leak.center/scalar-docs/) — the complete, try-it-live catalog of endpoints, parameters, and response shapes. Use the **guides** to learn a workflow; use the **reference** to look up the exact call.