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The DDGS page opened with the banner used for community tutorials, on a provider that ships inside Open WebUI and appears in the admin engine list. A reader following it reasonably concluded that DDGS was a separate service to deploy and connect, and went looking for a container, a URL and an API key that do not exist. The page now says there is nothing to install and no account to create, and points anyone who wants a provider's official API at the entries that do take a key. Two failure modes are documented alongside it. Pinning a single backend makes every search depend on that one provider continuing to serve automated requests, and a provider that stops doing so can answer with a page carrying no results rather than an error, so the advice is to return to Auto before changing anything else. Separately, a model reporting that the search tool is unavailable is usually a gating problem rather than a search problem, and the per-model web search capability is the setting people do not think to check.
👋 Open WebUI Documentation
Welcome to the official documentation for Open WebUI — a self-hosted, privacy-focused, and extensible AI interface for LLMs like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
This site is built with Docusaurus and includes:
- 🔧 Installation & setup guides (Docker, local, manual)
- 🧩 Plugin & extension documentation
- 📚 API reference & pipeline usage
- 🗂 File uploads & RAG integration
- 🤖 Developer contribution guide
📝 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please read the contributing guide for details.
🌐 Live Docs
👉 Visit the docs: docs.openwebui.com
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