# Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence lets your **SmartForms** and **CoPilots** pull fresh context from the web. Use it when your tool needs current facts, or when users paste a URL.

### Pick the right feature

#### Web Searching (Internet Access)

Use this when you need **quick, up-to-date facts**. It pulls information from the **main Google results page**. It does **not** click into results or scrape pages.

Good for:

* “What’s the latest news about \_\_\_?”
* Company snapshots, basic public info, quick research
* Reducing outdated answers and hallucinations

#### Web Crawling (URL scraping)

Use this when you need **the actual text from a specific page**. Your tool crawls a **single URL** and brings that page’s text into the prompt.

Good for:

* Summarizing an article someone links
* Turning a blog post into email/social variations
* Extracting details from a product or landing page

{% hint style="info" %}
Web crawling is available on **GPT‑4-class models and above**.
{% endhint %}

### Quick links

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th>Guide</th><th data-card-target data-type="content-ref">Open</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Web Searching</strong> (Internet Access)</td><td><a href="/spaces/0Lugni2T5TewiPeYs1ka/pages/mLy9vEtJt9HQEq8ZVwnU">/spaces/0Lugni2T5TewiPeYs1ka/pages/mLy9vEtJt9HQEq8ZVwnU</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Web Crawling</strong> (scrape a URL)</td><td><a href="/spaces/0Lugni2T5TewiPeYs1ka/pages/wtabRYURpxjWtGli1Gu3">/spaces/0Lugni2T5TewiPeYs1ka/pages/wtabRYURpxjWtGli1Gu3</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Best practices

* **Ask for sources.** Have the tool cite the URL or query it used.
* **Keep tasks narrow.** “Summarize this URL in 5 bullets” beats “analyze everything.”
* **Verify before acting.** Treat web results as input, not truth.

### Known limits (so you can design around them)

* **Web Searching** only sees the **search results page**.
* **Web Crawling** reads **text content** from a URL. It may skip paywalled, blocked, or heavy JS-rendered pages.
* Both features can fail if the source blocks bots or rate limits.

### Common patterns

* **SmartForm “Research + Write”**
  * Input: topic or brand name
  * Web Searching: pull current context
  * Output: brief + draft content
* **CoPilot “Paste a link, get help”**
  * User drops a URL
  * Web Crawling: ingest the page
  * CoPilot: answers questions using that page as context

### Safety and compliance notes

* Only crawl content you’re allowed to access and reuse.
* Avoid collecting sensitive personal data from the web.
* If you sell outputs, add your own review step.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://manual.formwise.ai/formwise/advanced-features/web-intelligence.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.