Web Search
infobroker_search_webSearch the web, encyclopedia, academic, and code sources through one interface with automatic provider selection and a fallback chain.
Instructions
Search the web, encyclopedia, academic, and code sources through one interface with automatic provider selection and a fallback chain. Use when you need broad or batched search, query autocomplete (suggest), query expansion (expand), ranked passages from the top pages (deep), or a multi-variant research compile that deep-reads each variant (research), and optional in-process analysis of the returned results (analyze: topics, entities, clusters, timeline). Do NOT use for a URL you already have (use infobroker_fetch_page), for high-stakes claim verification (use infobroker_verify_claims), for stored-report recall (use infobroker_manage_kb search), or for academic citations (use infobroker_get_citations). Caches results in the local knowledge base, enforces per-provider rate limits, and needs no API key for the free providers. fresh: true skips KB recall and searches external providers. Returns a JSON envelope prefixed [OK] or [ERROR] with status, provider, results, and meta.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| deep | No | Read the top results and return each page's ranked passages against the query | |
| page | No | Results page number (default 1) | |
| fresh | No | Skip the knowledge-base recall shortcut and search external providers (default false) | |
| query | Yes | Search query: a single string, or up to five strings searched in parallel | |
| expand | No | Return query-expansion strings instead of search results | |
| region | No | ISO region/country code (e.g. 'us-en', 'DE') | |
| analyze | No | Attach in-process analysis to the response: topic terms, entity mentions, semantic result clusters, and a dated timeline. Derived from the returned results only; adds no outbound request (default false) | |
| suggest | No | Return query-autocomplete strings instead of results (default false) | |
| language | No | Preferred result language (ISO 639-1, e.g. 'de'). Providers that cannot honor it report it in meta.ignored_params | |
| priority | No | Route by intent: speed, quality, privacy, or free_only | |
| provider | No | Provider slug (auto-select if omitted) | |
| research | No | Research compile: fan out to derived query variants and deep-read each, returning passages grouped by variant (default off) | |
| time_range | No | Restrict results to day, week, month, or year | |
| max_results | No | Number of results to return (1-30, default 8) | |
| safe_search | No | Safe-search filtering: on, off, or strict (default on) | on |
| content_type | No | Source kind to search: docs, issue, changelog, blog, spec, or all (default all) | all |