fix(opensearch): Implement dynamic OpenSearch XML generation and update layout reference

feat(search): Implement OpenSearch support
feat(search): Add searchUrl to message feat(parsers): Enhance parsers to deal with some thinking models better.
2025-09-16 22:31:32 +00:00 · 2025-05-08 00:39:17 -06:00 · 2025-05-08 00:21:31 -06:00
12 changed files with 132 additions and 17 deletions
--- a/src/app/api/chat/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/chat/route.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import db from '@/lib/db';
 import { chats, messages as messagesSchema } from '@/lib/db/schema';
 import {
  getAvailableChatModelProviders,
-  getAvailableEmbeddingModelProviders
+  getAvailableEmbeddingModelProviders,
 } from '@/lib/providers';
 import { searchHandlers } from '@/lib/search';
 import { getFileDetails } from '@/lib/utils/files';
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ const handleEmitterEvents = async (
  let recievedMessage = '';
  let sources: any[] = [];
  let searchQuery: string | undefined;
  let searchUrl: string | undefined;
  stream.on('data', (data) => {
    const parsedData = JSON.parse(data);
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ const handleEmitterEvents = async (
      if (parsedData.searchQuery) {
        searchQuery = parsedData.searchQuery;
      }
      if (parsedData.searchUrl) {
        searchUrl = parsedData.searchUrl;
      }
      writer.write(
        encoder.encode(
@@ -94,6 +98,7 @@ const handleEmitterEvents = async (
            data: parsedData.data,
            searchQuery: parsedData.searchQuery,
            messageId: aiMessageId,
            searchUrl: searchUrl,
          }) + '\n',
        ),
      );
@@ -128,6 +133,7 @@ const handleEmitterEvents = async (
          messageId: aiMessageId,
          modelStats: modelStats,
          searchQuery: searchQuery,
          searchUrl: searchUrl,
        }) + '\n',
      ),
    );
@@ -144,6 +150,7 @@ const handleEmitterEvents = async (
          ...(sources && sources.length > 0 && { sources }),
          ...(searchQuery && { searchQuery }),
          modelStats: modelStats,
          ...(searchUrl && { searchUrl }),
        }),
      })
      .execute();
--- a/src/app/api/opensearch/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/opensearch/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
 import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
 export async function GET(request: Request) {
  // Get the host from the request
  const url = new URL(request.url);
  const origin = url.origin;
  // Create the OpenSearch XML with the correct origin
  const opensearchXml = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
  <ShortName>Perplexica</ShortName>
  <LongName>Search with Perplexica AI</LongName>
  <Description>Perplexica is a powerful AI-driven search engine that understands your queries and delivers relevant results.</Description>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
  <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">${origin}/favicon.ico</Image>
  <Url type="text/html" template="${origin}/?q={searchTerms}"/>
  <Url type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="self" template="${origin}/api/opensearch"/>
 </OpenSearchDescription>`;
  // Return the XML with the correct content type
  return new NextResponse(opensearchXml, {
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/opensearchdescription+xml',
    },
  });
 }
--- a/src/app/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/layout.tsx
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ export default function RootLayout({
 }>) {
  return (
    <html className="h-full" lang="en" suppressHydrationWarning>
      <head>
        <link
          rel="search"
          type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
          title="Perplexica Search"
          href="/api/opensearch"
        />
      </head>
      <body className={cn('h-full', montserrat.className)}>
        <ThemeProvider>
          <Sidebar>{children}</Sidebar>
--- a/src/components/ChatWindow.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ChatWindow.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ export type Message = {
  sources?: Document[];
  modelStats?: ModelStats;
  searchQuery?: string;
  searchUrl?: string;
 };
 export interface File {
@@ -417,7 +418,6 @@ const ChatWindow = ({ id }: { id?: string }) => {
      if (data.type === 'sources') {
        sources = data.data;
        const searchQuery = data.searchQuery;
        if (!added) {
          setMessages((prevMessages) => [
            ...prevMessages,
@@ -427,7 +427,8 @@ const ChatWindow = ({ id }: { id?: string }) => {
              chatId: chatId!,
              role: 'assistant',
              sources: sources,
-              searchQuery: searchQuery,
+              searchQuery: data.searchQuery,
              searchUrl: data.searchUrl,
              createdAt: new Date(),
            },
          ]);
@@ -486,6 +487,7 @@ const ChatWindow = ({ id }: { id?: string }) => {
                modelStats: data.modelStats || null,
                // Make sure the searchQuery is preserved (if available in the message data)
                searchQuery: message.searchQuery || data.searchQuery,
                searchUrl: message.searchUrl || data.searchUrl,
              };
            }
            return message;
--- a/src/components/MessageBox.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MessageBox.tsx
@@ -280,8 +280,23 @@ const MessageBox = ({
                </div>
                {message.searchQuery && (
                  <div className="mb-2 text-sm bg-light-secondary dark:bg-dark-secondary rounded-lg p-3">
-                    <span className="font-medium text-black/70 dark:text-white/70">Search query:</span>{' '}
+                    <span className="font-medium text-black/70 dark:text-white/70">
-                    <span className="text-black dark:text-white">{message.searchQuery}</span>
+                      Search query:
                    </span>{' '}
                    {message.searchUrl ? (
                      <a
                        href={message.searchUrl}
                        target="_blank"
                        rel="noopener noreferrer"
                        className="dark:text-white text-black hover:underline"
                      >
                        {message.searchQuery}
                      </a>
                    ) : (
                      <span className="text-black dark:text-white">
                        {message.searchQuery}
                      </span>
                    )}
                  </div>
                )}
                <MessageSources sources={message.sources} />
--- a/src/components/MessageInput.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MessageInput.tsx
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ const MessageInput = ({
    setMessage('');
  };
- return (
+  return (
    <form
      onSubmit={(e) => {
        e.preventDefault();
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ const MessageInput = ({
          onChange={(e) => setMessage(e.target.value)}
          minRows={2}
          className="bg-transparent placeholder:text-black/50 dark:placeholder:text-white/50 text-sm text-black dark:text-white resize-none focus:outline-none w-full max-h-24 lg:max-h-36 xl:max-h-48"
-          placeholder={firstMessage ? "Ask anything..." :"Ask a follow-up"}
+          placeholder={firstMessage ? 'Ask anything...' : 'Ask a follow-up'}
        />
        <div className="flex flex-row items-center justify-between mt-4">
          <div className="flex flex-row items-center space-x-2 lg:space-x-4">
@@ -134,7 +134,11 @@ const MessageInput = ({
              className="bg-[#24A0ED] text-white disabled:text-black/50 dark:disabled:text-white/50 disabled:bg-[#e0e0dc] dark:disabled:bg-[#ececec21] hover:bg-opacity-85 transition duration-100 rounded-full p-2"
              type="submit"
            >
-              {firstMessage ? <ArrowRight className="bg-background" size={17} /> : <ArrowUp className="bg-background" size={17} />}
+              {firstMessage ? (
                <ArrowRight className="bg-background" size={17} />
              ) : (
                <ArrowUp className="bg-background" size={17} />
              )}
            </button>
          </div>
        </div>
--- a/src/lib/chains/suggestionGeneratorAgent.ts
+++ b/src/lib/chains/suggestionGeneratorAgent.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const suggestionGeneratorPrompt = `
 You are an AI suggestion generator for an AI powered search engine. You will be given a conversation below. You need to generate 4-5 suggestions based on the conversation. The suggestion should be relevant to the conversation that can be used by the user to ask the chat model for more information.
 You need to make sure the suggestions are relevant to the conversation and are helpful to the user. Keep a note that the user might use these suggestions to ask a chat model for more information. 
 Make sure the suggestions are medium in length and are informative and relevant to the conversation.
 If you are a thinking or reasoning AI, you should avoid using \`<suggestions>\` and \`</suggestions>\` tags in your thinking. Those tags should only be used in the final output.
 Provide these suggestions separated by newlines between the XML tags <suggestions> and </suggestions>. For example:
--- a/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts
+++ b/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string> {
  async parse(text: string): Promise<string> {
    text = text.trim() || '';
    // First, remove all <think>...</think> blocks to avoid parsing tags inside thinking content
    // This might be a little aggressive. Prompt massaging might be all we need, but this is a guarantee and should rarely mess anything up.
    text = this.removeThinkingBlocks(text);
    const regex = /^(\s*(-|\*|\d+\.\s|\d+\)\s|\u2022)\s*)+/;
    const startKeyIndex = text.indexOf(`<${this.key}>`);
    const endKeyIndex = text.indexOf(`</${this.key}>`);
@@ -40,6 +44,17 @@ class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string> {
    return line;
  }
  /**
   * Removes all content within <think>...</think> blocks
   * @param text The input text containing thinking blocks
   * @returns The text with all thinking blocks removed
   */
  private removeThinkingBlocks(text: string): string {
    // Use regex to identify and remove all <think>...</think> blocks
    // Using the 's' flag to make dot match newlines
    return text.replace(/<think>[\s\S]*?<\/think>/g, '').trim();
  }
  getFormatInstructions(): string {
    throw new Error('Not implemented.');
  }
--- a/src/lib/outputParsers/listLineOutputParser.ts
+++ b/src/lib/outputParsers/listLineOutputParser.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ class LineListOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string[]> {
  async parse(text: string): Promise<string[]> {
    text = text.trim() || '';
    // First, remove all <think>...</think> blocks to avoid parsing tags inside thinking content
    // This might be a little aggressive. Prompt massaging might be all we need, but this is a guarantee and should rarely mess anything up.
    text = this.removeThinkingBlocks(text);
    const regex = /^(\s*(-|\*|\d+\.\s|\d+\)\s|\u2022)\s*)+/;
    const startKeyIndex = text.indexOf(`<${this.key}>`);
    const endKeyIndex = text.indexOf(`</${this.key}>`);
@@ -42,6 +46,17 @@ class LineListOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string[]> {
    return lines;
  }
  /**
   * Removes all content within <think>...</think> blocks
   * @param text The input text containing thinking blocks
   * @returns The text with all thinking blocks removed
   */
  private removeThinkingBlocks(text: string): string {
    // Use regex to identify and remove all <think>...</think> blocks
    // Using [\s\S] pattern to match all characters including newlines
    return text.replace(/<think>[\s\S]*?<\/think>/g, '').trim();
  }
  getFormatInstructions(): string {
    throw new Error('Not implemented.');
  }
--- a/src/lib/prompts/webSearch.ts
+++ b/src/lib/prompts/webSearch.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ You are an AI question rephraser. You will be given a conversation and a follow-
 If it is a simple writing task or a greeting (unless the greeting contains a question after it) like Hi, Hello, How are you, etc. than a question then you need to return \`not_needed\` as the response (This is because the LLM won't need to search the web for finding information on this topic).
 If the user asks some question from some URL or wants you to summarize a PDF or a webpage (via URL) you need to return the links inside the \`links\` XML block and the question inside the \`question\` XML block. If the user wants to you to summarize the webpage or the PDF you need to return \`summarize\` inside the \`question\` XML block in place of a question and the link to summarize in the \`links\` XML block.
 You must always return the rephrased question inside the \`question\` XML block, if there are no links in the follow-up question then don't insert a \`links\` XML block in your response.
 If you are a thinking or reasoning AI, you should avoid using \`<question>\` and \`</question>\` tags in your thinking. Those tags should only be used in the final output. You should also avoid using \`<links>\` and \`</links>\` tags in your thinking. Those tags should only be used in the final output.
 There are several examples attached for your reference inside the below \`examples\` XML block
--- a/src/lib/search/metaSearchAgent.ts
+++ b/src/lib/search/metaSearchAgent.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ class MetaSearchAgent implements MetaSearchAgentType {
  private config: Config;
  private strParser = new StringOutputParser();
  private searchQuery?: string;
  private searxngUrl?: string;
  constructor(config: Config) {
    this.config = config;
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ class MetaSearchAgent implements MetaSearchAgentType {
        let question = this.config.summarizer
          ? await questionOutputParser.parse(input)
          : input;
        console.log('question', question);
        if (question === 'not_needed') {
          return { query: '', docs: [] };
@@ -206,12 +208,15 @@ class MetaSearchAgent implements MetaSearchAgentType {
        } else {
          question = question.replace(/<think>.*?<\/think>/g, '');
-          const res = await searchSearxng(question, {
+          const searxngResult = await searchSearxng(question, {
            language: 'en',
            engines: this.config.activeEngines,
          });
-          const documents = res.results.map(
+          // Store the SearXNG URL for later use in emitting to the client
          this.searxngUrl = searxngResult.searchUrl;
          const documents = searxngResult.results.map(
            (result) =>
              new Document({
                pageContent:
@@ -447,16 +452,15 @@ class MetaSearchAgent implements MetaSearchAgentType {
        event.event === 'on_chain_end' &&
        event.name === 'FinalSourceRetriever'
      ) {
        // Add searchQuery to the sources data if it exists
        const sourcesData = event.data.output;
        // @ts-ignore - we added searchQuery property
        if (this.searchQuery) {
          emitter.emit(
            'data',
            JSON.stringify({
              type: 'sources',
              data: sourcesData,
-              searchQuery: this.searchQuery 
+              searchQuery: this.searchQuery,
              searchUrl: this.searxngUrl,
            }),
          );
        } else {
--- a/src/lib/searxng.ts
+++ b/src/lib/searxng.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ interface SearxngSearchResult {
  iframe_src?: string;
 }
 interface SearxngResponse {
  results: SearxngSearchResult[];
  suggestions: string[];
  searchUrl: string;
 }
 export const searchSearxng = async (
  query: string,
  opts?: SearxngSearchOptions,
@@ -44,5 +50,16 @@ export const searchSearxng = async (
  const results: SearxngSearchResult[] = res.data.results;
  const suggestions: string[] = res.data.suggestions;
-  return { results, suggestions };
+  // Create a URL for viewing the search results in the SearXNG web interface
  const searchUrl = new URL(searxngURL);
  searchUrl.pathname = '/search';
  searchUrl.searchParams.append('q', query);
  if (opts?.engines?.length) {
    searchUrl.searchParams.append('engines', opts.engines.join(','));
  }
  if (opts?.language) {
    searchUrl.searchParams.append('language', opts.language);
  }
  return { results, suggestions, searchUrl: searchUrl.toString() };
 };
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Willie Zutz	d839769d7e	fix(opensearch): Implement dynamic OpenSearch XML generation and update layout reference	2025-05-08 00:39:17 -06:00
Willie Zutz	ddfe8c607d	feat(search): Implement OpenSearch support feat(search): Add searchUrl to message feat(parsers): Enhance parsers to deal with some thinking models better.	2025-05-08 00:21:31 -06:00