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Posted by tosh 1 day ago

Web Search API(developers.cloudflare.com)
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blurbleblurble 1 day ago|
At first I thought this was a new web standard and was intrigued to hear what they'd come up with, sad to find otherwise
daft_pink 1 day ago||
Wow, will they offers some sort of reduce a web page into a markdown file api as welL so we can get full web pages at reduced token sizes?
alexey-salmin 1 day ago||
We do have that in Exa search:

* Extraction of main content from HTMLs, the index stores markdown representations (free of headers/footers/sidebars/menus etc)

* Serving highlights picking the most relevant part for each result to reduce token usage downstream

* Also serving dynamic highlights where we summarize all the sources at once reducing the token counts even further

see here: https://exa.ai/docs/search/highlights and https://exa.ai/docs/contents/quickstart

moealmaw 1 day ago||
They already have that[0] it’s called Markdown for Agents and it works on any URL

[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/mar...

kobieps 1 day ago||
so this is like a competitor to https://parallel.ai/ ?
orliesaurus 1 day ago|
the >service providers< that CF has partnered with are >direct competitors< to parallelAI, yes
millicentricism 20 hours ago||
I’m a fan of paying for search with money rather than my privacy.
innocent_name 1 day ago||
Of course Firecrawl isn't "Verified bot". Their customers were responsible for 95% of my traffic bill overcharge.
knifelemon 23 hours ago||
It is questionable whether this can truly replace open-source projects.
corentin88 1 day ago||
Funny how search was a graveyard for startups for almost two decades. And since ChatGPT releases (or so) it’s a trending place again.
uzerfcwn 1 day ago|
I wish non-fuzzy searching was still trendy. It sucks when I know what I need and remember a bunch of keywords from the page, but search engines return either 0 results or a bunch of results that don't even contain the keywords.
maelito 1 day ago||
Same as https://staan.ai, the European index.
okokwhatever 1 day ago||
Who thought 5 years ago that searching online would have a cost...
breakingcups 1 day ago||
It always did, but who pays it is shifting.
gxcsoccer 1 day ago||
Looks free… until the bill hits.
dainiusse 17 hours ago|
* can bypass cloudflare bot validation?
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