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SearchApi

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For a comprehensive list of all environment variables related to Web Search (including concurrency settings, result counts, and more), please refer to the Environment Configuration documentation.

Troubleshooting

Having issues with web search? Check out the Web Search Troubleshooting Guide for solutions to common problems like proxy configuration, connection timeouts, and empty content.

SearchApi API​

SearchApi is a collection of real-time SERP APIs. Any existing or upcoming SERP engine that returns organic_results is supported. The default web search engine is google, but it can be changed to bing, baidu, google_news, bing_news, google_scholar, google_patents, and others.

Setup​

  1. Go to SearchApi, and log on or create a new account.
  2. Go to Dashboard and copy the API key.
  3. With API key, open HridaAI Admin panel and click Settings tab, and then click Web Search.
  4. Enable Web search and set Web Search Engine to searchapi.
  5. Fill SearchApi API Key with the API key that you copied in step 2 from SearchApi dashboard.
  6. [Optional] Enter the SearchApi engine name you want to query. Example, google, bing, baidu, google_news, bing_news, google_videos, google_scholar and google_patents. By default, it is set to google.
  7. Click Save.

HridaAI Admin panel

Note​

You have to enable Web search in the prompt field, using plus (+) button to search the web using SearchApi engines.

enable Web search

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