What problem does it solve?
It eliminates slow, manual web research by automatically searching the internet, extracting page/PDF content, enriching structured data, and producing evidence-grounded academic-style reports.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Web Search (academic-first): Finds relevant current information and prioritizes peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and scholarly databases for scientific/technical questions.
- URL Extraction: Fetches and extracts full content from webpages and academic PDFs, using an optional objective to focus on the most valuable sections.
- Data Enrichment (batch): Adds web-sourced fields to many entities at once (e.g., enriching company/person datasets) without repeatedly doing single lookups.
- Deep Research (exhaustive): Produces multi-source, comprehensive literature-style reports when the user explicitly requests deep/exhaustive research.
- Task lifecycle support: Handles setup/authentication, running tasks asynchronously, checking status, and retrieving completed results.
Quick Start
Use parallel-web to perform an academic-prioritized web search for the topic “effects of sleep deprivation on cognition” and return a cited summary.