Web search

curl https://ollama.com/api/web_search \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_API_KEY" \
	-d '{
	  "query":"what is ollama?"
	}'

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Ollama",
      "url": "https://ollama.com/",
      "content": "Cloud models are now available..."
    },
    {
      "title": "What is Ollama? Introduction to the AI model management tool",
      "url": "https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-ollama",
      "content": "Ariffud M. 6min Read..."
    },
    {
      "title": "Ollama Explained: Transforming AI Accessibility and Language ...",
      "url": "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence/ollama-explained-transforming-ai-accessibility-and-language-processing/",
      "content": "Data Science Data Science Projects Data Analysis..."
    }
  ]
}

import ollama
response = ollama.web_search("What is Ollama?")
print(response)

results = [
    {
        "title": "Ollama",
        "url": "https://ollama.com/",
        "content": "Cloud models are now available in Ollama..."
    },
    {
        "title": "What is Ollama? Features, Pricing, and Use Cases - Walturn",
        "url": "https://www.walturn.com/insights/what-is-ollama-features-pricing-and-use-cases",
        "content": "Our services..."
    },
    {
        "title": "Complete Ollama Guide: Installation, Usage & Code Examples",
        "url": "https://collabnix.com/complete-ollama-guide-installation-usage-code-examples",
        "content": "Join our Discord Server..."
    }
]

import { Ollama } from "ollama";

const client = new Ollama();
const results = await client.webSearch("what is ollama?");
console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Ollama",
      "url": "https://ollama.com/",
      "content": "Cloud models are now available..."
    },
    {
      "title": "What is Ollama? Introduction to the AI model management tool",
      "url": "https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-ollama",
      "content": "Ollama is an open-source tool..."
    },
    {
      "title": "Ollama Explained: Transforming AI Accessibility and Language Processing",
      "url": "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence/ollama-explained-transforming-ai-accessibility-and-language-processing/",
      "content": "Ollama is a groundbreaking..."
    }
  ]
}

curl --request POST \
  --url https://ollama.com/api/web_fetch \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_API_KEY" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
      "url": "ollama.com"
  }'

{
  "title": "Ollama",
  "content": "[Cloud models](https://ollama.com/blog/cloud-models) are now available in Ollama...",
  "links": [
    "http://ollama.com/",
    "http://ollama.com/models",
    "https://github.com/ollama/ollama"
  ]

from ollama import web_fetch

result = web_fetch('https://ollama.com')
print(result)

WebFetchResponse(
    title='Ollama',
    content='[Cloud models](https://ollama.com/blog/cloud-models) are now available in Ollama\n\n**Chat & build
with open models**\n\n[Download](https://ollama.com/download) [Explore
models](https://ollama.com/models)\n\nAvailable for macOS, Windows, and Linux',
    links=['https://ollama.com/', 'https://ollama.com/models', 'https://github.com/ollama/ollama']
)

import { Ollama } from "ollama";

const client = new Ollama();
const fetchResult = await client.webFetch("https://ollama.com");
console.log(JSON.stringify(fetchResult, null, 2));

{
  "title": "Ollama",
  "content": "[Cloud models](https://ollama.com/blog/cloud-models) are now available in Ollama...",
  "links": [
    "https://ollama.com/",
    "https://ollama.com/models",
    "https://github.com/ollama/ollama"
  ]
}

ollama pull qwen3:4b

from ollama import chat, web_fetch, web_search

available_tools = {'web_search': web_search, 'web_fetch': web_fetch}

messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': "what is ollama's new engine"}]

while True:
  response = chat(
    model='qwen3:4b',
    messages=messages,
    tools=[web_search, web_fetch],
    think=True
    )
  if response.message.thinking:
    print('Thinking: ', response.message.thinking)
  if response.message.content:
    print('Content: ', response.message.content)
  messages.append(response.message)
  if response.message.tool_calls:
    print('Tool calls: ', response.message.tool_calls)
    for tool_call in response.message.tool_calls:
      function_to_call = available_tools.get(tool_call.function.name)
      if function_to_call:
        args = tool_call.function.arguments
        result = function_to_call(**args)
        print('Result: ', str(result)[:200]+'...')
        # Result is truncated for limited context lengths
        messages.append({'role': 'tool', 'content': str(result)[:2000 * 4], 'tool_name': tool_call.function.name})
      else:
        messages.append({'role': 'tool', 'content': f'Tool {tool_call.function.name} not found', 'tool_name': tool_call.function.name})
  else:
    break

Thinking:  Okay, the user is asking about Ollama's new engine. I need to figure out what they're referring to. Ollama is a company that develops large language models, so maybe they've released a new model or an updated version of their existing engine....

Tool calls:  [ToolCall(function=Function(name='web_search', arguments={'max_results': 3, 'query': 'Ollama new engine'}))]
Result:  results=[WebSearchResult(content='# New model scheduling\n\n## September 23, 2025\n\nOllama now includes a significantly improved model scheduling system. Ahead of running a model, Ollama’s new engine

Thinking:  Okay, the user asked about Ollama's new engine. Let me look at the search results.

First result is from September 23, 2025, talking about new model scheduling. It mentions improved memory management, reduced crashes, better GPU utilization, and multi-GPU performance. Examples show speed improvements and accurate memory reporting. Supported models include gemma3, llama4, qwen3, etc...

Content:  Ollama has introduced two key updates to its engine, both released in 2025:

1. **Enhanced Model Scheduling (September 23, 2025)**
   - **Precision Memory Management**: Exact memory allocation reduces out-of-memory crashes and optimizes GPU utilization.
   - **Performance Gains**: Examples show significant speed improvements (e.g., 85.54 tokens/s vs 52.02 tokens/s) and full GPU layer utilization.
   - **Multi-GPU Support**: Improved efficiency across multiple GPUs, with accurate memory reporting via tools like `nvidia-smi`.
   - **Supported Models**: Includes `gemma3`, `llama4`, `qwen3`, `mistral-small3.2`, and more.

2. **Multimodal Engine (May 15, 2025)**
   - **Vision Support**: First-class support for vision models, including `llama4:scout` (109B parameters), `gemma3`, `qwen2.5vl`, and `mistral-small3.1`.
   - **Multimodal Tasks**: Examples include identifying animals in multiple images, answering location-based questions from videos, and document scanning.

These updates highlight Ollama's focus on efficiency, performance, and expanded capabilities for both text and vision tasks.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web_search_and_fetch": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "path/to/web-search-mcp.py"],
      "env": { "OLLAMA_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.web_search]
command = "uv"
args = ["run", "path/to/web-search-mcp.py"]
env = { "OLLAMA_API_KEY" = "your_api_key_here" }