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Web Search (Preview) ​

You can enable web search in ChatWise by clicking this button:

preview

The web search feature is capable of searching the web as well as extracting content from a specific page.

For example you can ask it "who won the euro" or simply "summarize https://example.com/some-page".

ChatWise now offers two types of web search:

  • Available for: Google Gemini models (googleai-*) and X.AI models (xai-*)
  • How it works: Uses the AI provider's built-in search capabilities
  • Advantages: Faster response times, better integration with the model's knowledge
  • Usage: Automatically available when using supported models

Native search is handled entirely by the AI provider and doesn't require any configuration on your part.

  • Available for: All AI models
  • How it works: Uses ChatWise's search extension with various search providers
  • Advantages: More control over search providers, works with any model
  • Usage: Can be used as fallback or preferred option

You can toggle between these options using the web search popover when both are available.

ChatWise Search Configuration ​

The following sections apply to ChatWise Search only:

Search engines ​

Google (free) ​

This is the default option, ChatWise will scrape the Google search results page locally using your browser, no API key required.

Bing (free) ​

Like Google (free), but scraping the Bing search results page locally using your browser, no API key required.

Google (API Key) ​

ChatWise also support Google Custom Search JSON API, you just need to enter your API Key and Search Engine ID.

Tavily ​

Tavily is a web serivce, you need to get an API key on Tavily and enter it in ChatWise settings.

Ollama Web Search provides a hosted web search API you can call from ChatWise. Generate an API key from Ollama and enter it in the settings.

Brave Search (API) ​

Get an API from Brave Search (2000 free queries every month) and enter it in ChatWise settings.

Jina AI (API Key) ​

Get an API Key from Jina AI and enter it in ChatWise settings.

Exa (API Key) ​

Get an API Key from Exa and enter it in ChatWise settings.

Use this provider to implement your own search service, we will send a POST request with the following JSON body to the URL you provided:

json
{
  "queries": ["query 1", "query 2"],
  "max_results": 10,
  "exclude_domains": ["a.com", "b.com"]
}

And it expects the following response:

json
{
  "results": [
    {
      "query": "query 1",
      "links": [
        {
          "title": "title 1",
          "url": "url 1",
          "content": "content 1"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "query": "query 2",
      "links": [
        {
          "title": "title 1",
          "url": "url 1",
          "content": "content 1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Search features ​

Category ​

Exclude domains ​

In the web search settings you can exclude specific domains from search results, this is also supported in the prompt you send to the AI, for example:

text
Search how to upgrade to TailwindCSS 4, excluding medium.com

Max results ​

In the web search settings you can set the maximum number of search results, this is also supported in the prompt you send to the AI, for example:

text
Search how to upgrade to TailwindCSS 4, with a maximum of 25 results