Qwen API — answers and search results from Qwen's China web chat - querying.ai

QWEN asks Qwen’s web chat at qianwen.com, the China service, with its web search on and no account or login involved.


taskType	`QWEN`
Reads	`prompt` (falls back to `query`)
Credits	1.25
Country	Optional, default `US`. Sets both the exit country and the answer locale; `CN` asks from mainland China.

Request

curl -X POST https://api.querying.ai/v1/async/task \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QUERYING_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "taskType": "QWEN", "payload": { "prompt": "Which electric car brands are most reliable? Answer in English.", "country": "US" } }'

Response

Field	Type	Description
`text`	string	The answer.
`markdown`	string	The answer as Markdown. Returned without any flag.
`model`	string	The model Qwen answered with, when known.
`searchQueries`	string[]	The searches Qwen ran.
`sources`	array	The search results Qwen read: `position`, `url`, `label`, `description`, `siteName`, `publishedAt`.
`images`, `videos`	array	Media shown with the answer, when there is any.
`rawResponse`	array	Stream events. Only with `include.rawResponse`.

publishedAt is the date as Qwen shows it, not an ISO timestamp. The answer text carries no citation marks: sources lists what Qwen read, not what it cited. For example:

{
  "text": "Brands often rated most reliable include ...",
  "markdown": "Brands often rated most reliable include ...",
  "model": "qwen3.6-plus-2026-05-07",
  "searchQueries": ["most reliable electric car brands"],
  "sources": [{ "position": 1, "url": "https://www.example.com/ev-reliability", "label": "EV reliability rankings", "siteName": "Example Auto" }]
}

Include flags

Flag	Effect
`rawResponse`	Adds `rawResponse`.

markdown needs no flag. searchQueries, ads and shopping have no effect. analysis is rejected with 422 VALIDATION_ERROR, citationAnalysis with 400 VALIDATION_ERROR and html with 422 EVIDENCE_UNSUPPORTED. See Markdown and raw responses.

Answer language

Qwen chooses the answer language itself. A prompt in English, French or Spanish can come back in Chinese. To get an answer in a given language, ask for it in the prompt, as in the example above.