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Overview

Web Browser actions provide direct access to internet search and webpage content extraction. Perfect for:
  • Internet search — search Google and other search engines for information
  • Text extraction — convert webpages and PDFs into readable text
  • Research workflows — gather and process web content for analysis

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Search the Internet Action

  • What it does: Searches the internet using your chosen search engine to find relevant results for your query.
Search the Internet action configuration

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Inputs

  • Query: The search terms or question you want to search for
  • Search Engine: Choose your preferred search engine (Google is most common)

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Outputs

  • Search Results: List of relevant websites and information found
This action becomes particularly powerful when used inside an AI agent, as the agent can formulate search queries based on context and process the results intelligently.

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Extract Webpage Text Action

  • What it does: Converts webpages or PDFs into clean, readable text that can be processed by your agent.
Extract Webpage Text action configuration

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Inputs

  • URL: The webpage or PDF URL you want to extract text from

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Outputs

  • Extracted Text: Clean text content from the webpage or PDF
This is straightforward but essential for processing web content — just provide any webpage or PDF URL and get back the text content.

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Other Web Browsing Actions

The Web Browser also includes several other specialized actions:
  • Contact Details Scraper — Extract contact information from websites
  • RAG Web Browser — Advanced browsing for AI applications
  • Similarweb Scraper — Get website analytics and traffic data
  • Website Content Crawler — Crawl entire websites for content

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Best Practices

  • Use specific, targeted search queries for better results
  • Let AI agents formulate queries based on workflow context
  • Combine with other actions to process search results
  • Test different search engines for specific use cases
  • Verify URLs are accessible before extraction
  • Handle extraction errors gracefully in workflows
  • Process extracted text with other actions for analysis
  • Be mindful of large documents that may hit processing limits

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Next Steps

Perplexity Search

AI-powered search with reasoning capabilities

Context Management

Store search results and extracted text

Set Variables

Save web content for later processing

LLM Call

Analyze extracted text with custom prompts
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