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Bing

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This tutorial is a community contribution and is not supported by the Open WebUI team. It serves only as a demonstration on how to customize Open WebUI for your specific use case. Want to contribute? Check out the contributing tutorial.

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For a comprehensive list of all environment variables related to Web Search (including concurrency settings, result counts, and more), please refer to the Environment Configuration documentation.

Troubleshooting

Having issues with web search? Check out the Web Search Troubleshooting Guide for solutions to common problems like proxy configuration, connection timeouts, and empty content.

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Bing Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. New deployments are not supported.

Bing API​

Setup​

  1. Navigate to the AzurePortal and create a new resource. After creation, you’ll be redirected to the resource overview page. From there, select "manage keys." manage keys
  2. On the key management page, locate Key1 or Key2 and copy your desired key.
  3. Open Settings > Admin > Web Search.
  4. Enable the Web search option and set the Web Search Engine to bing.
  5. Fill Bing Search V7 Subscription Key (BING_SEARCH_V7_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY) with the key that you copied in step 2 from the Azure Portal dashboard. Bing Search V7 Endpoint (BING_SEARCH_V7_ENDPOINT) defaults to https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search and only needs changing for a custom endpoint. Open WebUI does not check that the key is set, so an empty key fails at Bing rather than in Open WebUI.
  6. Click Save.
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