Developer-Tools

Parallel Search

by Parallel Web Systems

Overview

Parallel Search MCP provides drop-in web search and content extraction capabilities. The tools invoke the Search API and Extract API endpoints but present a simpler interface to ensure effective use by agents. Parallel provides token-efficient search, so your agent can find the most relevant information from the web without using up your token budget.

Tools

web_fetch

ChatGPT

Purpose: Fetch and extract relevant content from specific web URLs. Use only when web_search excerpts are insufficient for the task at hand. Ideal Use Cases: - The user asked about a specific URL or page - You need exact wording or quotes that excerpts may have truncated - You need full-page analysis (long article, document, or page structure) - web_search excerpts are conflicting or clearly insufficient to answer

web_search

ChatGPT

Purpose: Perform web searches and return LLM-friendly results, including excerpts that are usually sufficient to answer directly without a follow-up fetch. Ideal Use Cases: - Answering questions that require fresh or current information - Research, comparison, documentation, and troubleshooting questions - Broad tasks where multiple search_queries can be issued in a single call

web_fetch

Claude

web_search

Claude

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ChatGPT, Claude

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