In Admin > Settings > Web Search, configure the AI’s web search functionality. With web search enabled, agents can reference real-time internet information when answering.
Enabling Web Search
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|
| Web Search enabled | Web search feature ON/OFF | Disabled |
Search Engine Selection
Supported web search engines. Pick the engine and enter its API key.
| Engine | API Key Required | Notes |
|---|
| SearXNG | Not required (self-hosted) | Privacy-focused metasearch engine. Requires Query URL |
| Google PSE | Required | Google Programmable Search Engine. Requires API Key + Engine ID |
| Brave Search | Required | Brave Search API |
| Kagi | Required | Premium search engine |
| Mojeek | Required | Independent crawler-based search engine |
| Bocha | Required | AI search API |
| Serpstack | Required | Google search results API |
| Serper | Required | Google search results API |
| Serply | Required | Search results API |
| SearchAPI | Required | Multi-engine search API. Engine selectable |
| SerpAPI | Required | Google search results scraping. Engine selectable |
| DuckDuckGo | Not required | Free, privacy-focused |
| Tavily | Required | AI-optimized search API |
| Jina | Required | AI search API |
| Bing | Required | Microsoft Bing Search V7. Requires Endpoint + Subscription Key |
| Exa | Required | Semantic search API |
| Perplexity | Required | AI-based search |
| Sougou | Required | Chinese search engine. Requires API sID + SK |
Search Configuration
The detail settings below are only visible when Web Search enabled is on.
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|
| Number of results | Number of search results to fetch | 5 |
| Concurrent requests | Number of parallel search requests | 1 |
| Domain filter | Allow/block domain list (comma-separated) | - |
Web Loader
The engine that fetches web page content from search result URLs.
| Engine | Strengths |
|---|
| Default | Simple HTTP request to extract text. Toggle Verify SSL Certificate to set SSL certificate verification |
| Playwright | Supports JavaScript rendering for SPA pages. Set WebSocket URL and Timeout |
| Firecrawl | Advanced web crawling and content refinement. Requires API Base URL and API Key |
| Tavily | AI-optimized content extraction. Set Extract Depth |
For pages heavy with JavaScript rendering, Playwright or Firecrawl is recommended.
The default loader only processes static HTML.
YouTube Loader
Use YouTube video subtitles as search sources.
| Setting | Description |
|---|
| Languages | Subtitle languages to fetch (comma-separated, e.g., ko,en) |
| Proxy URL | Proxy URL to use when accessing YouTube (e.g., https://user:password@host:port) |
