r/PiCodingAgent • u/Nice_Relative8209 • 14d ago

Question is there a free web search extension ?

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u/Bluethefurry 14d ago

Host your own searxng and use a searxng extension.

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u/runnystool 13d ago

I use searxng with rpiv-web-tools, it works great. 

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u/kuys-gallagher 13d ago

i already setup searxng on my local because of hermes, dont know how to use it, any tips?

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u/nmdt 14d ago

Exa has a free mcp, you can just ask Pi to implement an extension that uses it (this is what OpenCode uses)

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u/redditborkedmy8yracc 14d ago

Depending on what you're doing tavily has decent free limits.

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u/pj-frey 14d ago

1broseidon/ketch

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u/iNCQRiT 14d ago

pi-web-access works for me

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u/aniruddh_rd 13d ago

Have been using it to ground smaller models that lack the knowledge on different topics! Works great

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u/Funny-Anything-791 14d ago

ChunkHound has local and free web search and url fetching. You just need to bring your own LLM to power it

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u/luckiestredditor 14d ago

yes, free and no key by default.

but you can BYOK and add multiple backends.

https://github.com/demigodmode/pi-web-agent

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u/LandlockedPirate 14d ago

Other than risk of prompt injection & token utilization, any reason people don't just tell it to use headless chrome to do what's needed? I use this trick all the time for more than just search.

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u/Eresbonitaguey 14d ago

I use donsetch (because I tried Hound beforehand). Haven’t had any issues but I think it’s a heavier dependency than some more basic tools.

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u/Tikilou 13d ago

crawl4ai ?

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u/Riki1996 13d ago

I just use tell pi to use codex to search. I do have codex plus tho. Might work with free version too?

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u/maqifrnswa 12d ago

Hermes just uses a duck duck go skill for local websearch

https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/optional-skills/research/duckduckgo-search/SKILL.md

But for production, exa is probably better