Product · Search
Search web or academic sources. Choose the engines.
Query web, news or academic engines at once. You get one result shape back. You see which engines answered.
See it work
Try it from wherever you work.
1webfold search "rust html to markdown" --count 10
2webfold search "attention is all you need" --consensus --profile academic
What you get
What Search does.
Profiles that fit the question
Web, tech, academic or all. The academic profile queries arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref and Wikipedia.
Your choice of engines
Pass `--engines` to pick exactly which ones run. Unknown names are an error, never silently another engine.
One result shape
Rank, URL, title and snippet from every engine, so downstream code does not care where a result came from.
Search a corpus offline
Index a folder of saved pages and search it with no network.
How it works
Three steps.
- 1
Query
Send the query to the engines you chose.
- 2
Normalise
Parse each answer into the same rows.
- 3
Merge
Combine results across engines.
Limits up front.
Know the limits
- Webfold does not have its own search index. It queries other engines and merges the answers.
- Challenge and block pages are reported, not bypassed.
- We have not published a result-quality comparison against index-based search APIs.
Keep reading.
FAQ
Questions.
Does Webfold have its own search index?
No. It queries the engines you choose and merges their results, then reads the pages itself. We have not published a result-quality comparison.
Can I get arXiv papers and YouTube transcripts?
Yes, through the hosted API's research endpoints.
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