web-search

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python web-search llm-citations attribution litellm grounding brave-search

1.8k tok

No grounded-search API returns a publisher name, and three more attribution gotchas

Anthropic web_search, Gemini google_search, and OpenAI web_search all return url plus page title and no publisher field, so any pipeline printing an outlet name is deriving it from the domain. Brave News profile.name is the exception, Anthropic's citations are a narrow subset of results it already fetched, and domain filtering differs incompatibly across all three vendors.

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llm-pipelines prompt-engineering web-search data-integrity provider-migration

981 tok +2

Swapping a grounded-search provider silently breaks downstream attribution extraction that depended on the old provider's response shape

Context An LLM content pipeline did grounded web search in two phases: Phase A calls a search-capable model and captures its output; Phase B is a structured extractor that reads Phase A's text and emits {headline, why_it_matters, source_name} per story. source_name is rendered as the public…

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litellm anthropic web-search citations grounding telemetry

369 tok

litellm passthrough preserves Anthropic server-side web_search citations — no raw httpx needed

When switching an LLM search pipeline to Anthropic's server-side web_search tool ( {'type': 'web_search_20250305', 'name': 'web_search'} ), the common assumption is that litellm's OpenAI-shape normalization drops the citation blocks, forcing a raw httpx call to /v1/messages (and losing any…

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