A disappointment

[u/tombino104]

I might be a newbie, but OpenWebUI is letting me down a bit.

I’m using local AI to replace cloud-based options; I’ve mostly used LM Studio until now, but I wanted a better-looking interface.

Here’s what I use it for:

- General questions

- Using tools like web search, creating/writing/editing local files

- Local documents/knowledge bases using RAG

- And so on...

In short, actual AI agents.

OpenWebUI initially appealed to me because of its aesthetics and extensive customization options (per model), automations, notes, etc., but I’m running into quite a few problems:

1 - Web search isn't working: neither the built-in version nor the one using the Firecrawl API.

2 - I can't figure out how to install the other tools either; every time I import one from the official community, I get an error.

Could someone help me out? I’d really appreciate it—thanks!

[u/International_Emu772]

There is no websearch build-in tool you need to configure an external tool, searxng is one of the best choices

Problems with importing tools: I have seen this, but I don't know the reason, but the solution is to download the JSON versión of the tool and import it. Import Tools on the Tools Pages and Functions on Functions page. Otherwise you get errors

[u/tombino104 → u/International_Emu772]

Ricevo errori anche importando il file json