title: 'Web Search Tool (Deprecated)' sidebar_label: 'Websearch (Deprecated)' description: 'The websearch tool is no longer supported in Spice.'

:::warning Deprecated The websearch tool is no longer supported and was deprecated in spiceai/spiceai#9910 (opens in a new tab). The tool was backed by Perplexity, which is no longer supported.

For web search functionality, use OpenAI's hosted web search tool (opens in a new tab) via the OpenAI Responses API (opens in a new tab).

For documentation on the websearch tool in previous versions, see the v1.11.x websearch documentation (opens in a new tab). :::