diff --git a/src/tatoeba/api.gleam b/src/tatoeba/api.gleam
index 4a3891b..94cbece 100644
--- a/src/tatoeba/api.gleam
+++ b/src/tatoeba/api.gleam
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import gleam/dynamic.{type Dynamic}
 import gleam/http.{type Header}
 import gleam/http/request.{type Request}
+import gleam/json
 import gleam/list
 import gleam/option.{None, Some}
 import gleam/uri.{type Uri, Uri}
@@ -22,6 +24,15 @@ pub const headers: List(Header) = [
   #("User-Agent", "tatoeba.gleam (https://github.com/vxern/tatoeba)"),
 ]
 
+/// The possible errors API calls can fail with.
+///
+pub type ApiError {
+  /// Failed to make a request to Tatoeba.
+  RequestError(Dynamic)
+  /// Failed to decode the response data.
+  DecodeError(json.DecodeError)
+}
+
 /// Creates a new request to the given endpoint.
 /// 
 /// This function is used over the bare `request.from_uri()` to add a step
diff --git a/src/tatoeba/search.gleam b/src/tatoeba/search.gleam
index 480ea75..122f759 100644
--- a/src/tatoeba/search.gleam
+++ b/src/tatoeba/search.gleam
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ fn results(
 
 /// Runs a search query using the passed `options` to filter the results.
 ///
-pub fn run(options: SearchOptions) -> Result(SearchResults, String) {
+pub fn run(options: SearchOptions) -> Result(SearchResults, api.ApiError) {
   let request =
     api.new_request_to("/search")
     |> request.set_method(http.Get)
@@ -327,14 +327,18 @@ pub fn run(options: SearchOptions) -> Result(SearchResults, String) {
 
   use response <- result.try(
     httpc.send(request)
-    |> result.map_error(fn(_) { "Failed to send request to Tatoeba." }),
+    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { api.RequestError(error) }),
   )
+
+  response.body |> decode_payload()
+}
+
+/// Decodes the received search payload.
+///
+fn decode_payload(payload: String) -> Result(SearchResults, api.ApiError) {
   use results <- result.try(
-    json.decode(response.body, results)
-    |> result.map_error(fn(error) {
-      "Failed to decode sentence data: "
-      <> dynamic.classify(dynamic.from(error))
-    }),
+    json.decode(payload, results)
+    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { api.DecodeError(error) }),
   )
 
   Ok(results)
diff --git a/src/tatoeba/sentence.gleam b/src/tatoeba/sentence.gleam
index b4a3ecb..047d611 100644
--- a/src/tatoeba/sentence.gleam
+++ b/src/tatoeba/sentence.gleam
@@ -562,25 +562,16 @@ pub fn new_id(id: Int) -> Result(SentenceId, IdError) {
   }
 }
 
-/// The possible errors sentence retrieval can fail with.
-///
-pub type SentenceError {
-  /// Failed to make a request to Tatoeba.
-  RequestError(Dynamic)
-  /// Failed to decode the response data.
-  DecodeError(json.DecodeError)
-}
-
 /// Gets data of a single sentence in the Tatoeba corpus.
 ///
-pub fn get(id id: SentenceId) -> Result(Option(Sentence), SentenceError) {
+pub fn get(id id: SentenceId) -> Result(Option(Sentence), api.ApiError) {
   let request =
     api.new_request_to("/sentence/" <> int.to_string(id.value))
     |> request.set_method(http.Get)
 
   use response <- result.try(
     httpc.send(request)
-    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { RequestError(error) }),
+    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { api.RequestError(error) }),
   )
 
   case response.body |> string.length() {
@@ -591,10 +582,10 @@ pub fn get(id id: SentenceId) -> Result(Option(Sentence), SentenceError) {
 
 /// Decodes the received sentence payload.
 ///
-fn decode_payload(payload: String) -> Result(Sentence, SentenceError) {
+fn decode_payload(payload: String) -> Result(Sentence, api.ApiError) {
   use sentence <- result.try(
     json.decode(payload, sentence)
-    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { DecodeError(error) }),
+    |> result.map_error(fn(error) { api.DecodeError(error) }),
   )
 
   Ok(sentence)