Venice provides separate APIs for discovering web pages and extracting their content:
- Web Search returns structured results with titles, URLs, snippets, and dates.
- Web Scrape converts a selected public page into Markdown.
Use them together when your application needs current, inspectable source material before inference.
Search the Web
Send a query to the Search API:
Brave is the default provider and provides Zero Data Retention. Google is also available with anonymized queries proxied through Venice. See the Web Search API reference for provider selection and the complete response schema.
Scrape a Page
After selecting a result, send its public URL to the Scrape API:
The endpoint returns the page content as Markdown. It first requests the site’s native Markdown representation when available and otherwise uses browser-based extraction.
Search-to-Scrape Workflow
Search
Submit a focused query and collect the structured results.
Select sources
Filter results by relevance, domain, and date before fetching page content.
Scrape
Extract Markdown only from the pages your application intends to use.
Use or store the content
Include the Markdown in a prompt, create embeddings, cache it, or preserve source URLs for citations.
Standalone Search or Model Web Search?
Use the standalone APIs when your application needs control over source selection or wants to reuse retrieved content. Enable web search on a model request when you want Venice to handle retrieval as part of a single inference request.
Web Search and Web Scrape are experimental APIs. Their request and response formats may change without notice. Web Scrape only accepts publicly accessible pages, and sites that block automated access may be rejected.
