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title: "Web Search"
description: "Local-first visual environment for building and running AI workflows. Build agents visually, deploy anywhere, privacy by design."
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# Web Search

**Type:** `openai.text.WebSearch`

**Namespace:** `openai.text`

## Description

Search the web with OpenAI's web-search models to answer queries from current information.
    openai, web, search, internet, browsing, current, realtime

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| query | `str` | The search query to execute. | `` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `str` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [openai.text](./) namespace.