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Web research applications usually need search to find sources, extraction to read pages, and retrieval to bring relevant passages into a model’s context. Exa and Tavily provide web search, Firecrawl extracts website content, and Pinecone and Cohere support retrieval workflows.

Editorial selection · Summaries reviewed · Our methodology

Choose your building blocks

Turn websites into structured data and readable content for AI applications.

Search & dataWeb scrapingExtraction

Documentation Source reviewed

Search the web and retrieve page content for AI research and agent workflows.

Search & dataWeb searchResearch

Documentation Source reviewed

Build enterprise AI with language models, embeddings, and reranking for retrieval workflows.

AI modelsEmbeddingsReranking

Documentation Source reviewed

Store and search vector data to retrieve relevant context for AI applications.

Search & dataVector databaseRetrieval

Documentation Source reviewed

Search the web and extract content for research agents and AI applications.

Search & dataWeb searchResearch

Documentation Source reviewed

Automate browsers, scrape websites and run browser-based audits through Browserless APIs.

Search & dataBrowser automationWeb scraping

Documentation Source reviewed

Access search-engine results, keyword research and marketing data through DataForSEO APIs.

Search & dataSearch dataSEO

Documentation Source reviewed

Collect structured web data with Oxylabs Web Scraper API and AI Studio tools.

Search & dataWeb scrapingExtraction

Documentation Source reviewed

Search the web, fetch pages and run research or enrichment tasks through Parallel APIs.

Search & dataWeb researchEnrichment

Documentation Source reviewed

Retrieve structured search results and other real-time search data through SearchAPI.

Search & dataSearch dataWeb search

Documentation Source reviewed

What to evaluate

  • Test source coverage and extraction quality on representative websites.
  • Preserve source URLs and timestamps so answers can be checked.
  • Respect source access rules and evaluate how fresh results need to be.

Provider documentation

Read the original sources for current capabilities, setup requirements, and usage terms. These selections are starting points, not a performance ranking.

ProviderUse casePrimary source
FirecrawlWeb scraping, ExtractionFirecrawl documentation ↗
ExaWeb search, ResearchExa documentation ↗
CohereEmbeddings, RerankingCohere documentation ↗
PineconeVector database, RetrievalPinecone documentation ↗
TavilyWeb search, ResearchTavily documentation ↗
BrowserlessBrowser automation, Web scrapingBrowserless documentation ↗
DataForSEOSearch data, SEODataForSEO documentation ↗
OxylabsWeb scraping, ExtractionOxylabs documentation ↗
ParallelWeb research, EnrichmentParallel documentation ↗
ScrapeGraphAIWeb scraping, ExtractionScrapeGraphAI documentation ↗
SearchAPISearch data, Web searchSearchAPI documentation ↗

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