Web Search API
October 2, 2026Introducing Web Search APIAI GatewayWeb Search APICopy as Markdown|View as Markdown|Agent setupWeb Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.
- ▪October 2, 2026Introducing Web Search APIAI GatewayWeb Search APICopy as Markdown|View as Markdown|Agent setupWeb Search API is now available in beta.
- ▪Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff.
- ▪At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Cloudflare Docs |
| Canonical URL | https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:47:06 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-05T11:35:49.747Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-05T11:35:49.747Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | cty8QEXJ0LYn · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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October 2, 2026Introducing Web Search APIAI GatewayWeb Search APICopy as Markdown|View as Markdown|Agent setupWeb Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. All three support Zero Data Retention for requests made through Cloudflare, and all have committed to Cloudflare's verified bot crawling standards. Web Search API runs through AI Gateway, so search requests appear in your gateway logs and are billed to your AI Gateway credits at each provider's list API price, with no additional markup.
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