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# Azure OpenAI Web Search

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Ben (@frescoanalytics) · 2025-04-24

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https://sdk.vercel.ai/providers/ai-sdk-providers/azure#web-search
According the documentation above, ai-sdk allows web search via azure. However, google search, and chatbots do not return more details on Azure's support of web search.

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```
import { createAzure } from '@ai-sdk/azure';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const endpoint = process.env.AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT;
const apiKey = process.env.AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY;
const deploymentName = process.env.AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT;

if (!endpoint || !apiKey || !deploymentName) {
  console.error(
    'Error: One or more required env vars are missing: AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT, AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY, AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT',
  );
  process.exit(1);
}

// Extract resource name from endpoint
const resourceName = endpoint.replace(/^https?:\/\//, '').split('.')[0];

const azure = createAzure({
  resourceName,
  apiKey,
});

const prompt = process.argv.slice(2).join(' ');
if (!prompt) {
  console.error('Usage: pnpm tsx azure-chat.ts "Your prompt here"');
  process.exit(1);
}

async function main() {
  try {
    const { text } = await generateText({
      model: azure.responses(deploymentName as string),
      prompt,
      // tools: {
      //   web_search_preview: azure.tools.webSearchPreview({
      //     // optional configuration:
      //     searchContextSize: 'high',
      //     userLocation: {
      //       type: 'approximate',
      //       city: 'San Francisco',
      //       region: 'California',
      //     },
      //   }),
      //   // Force web search tool:
      //   toolChoice: { type: 'tool', toolName: 'web_search_preview' },
      //   // You can add providerOptions here if needed
      // },
    });
    console.log('\nAzure OpenAI response:\n', text);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error communicating with Azure OpenAI:', err);
    process.exit(1);
  }
}

main();

```
My above code works. The commented part is copied from the documentation. But if I uncomment it , error occurs.

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'azure.tools.webSearchPreview')



<!-- Project information (URL, framework, environment, project settings) -->
@ai-sdk/azure": "^1.3.19",
"ai": "4.3.4",


Nico Albanese (@nicoalbanese) · 2025-04-28 · ♥ 2

Hey! This appears to be an error in our docs. I don't believe we support provider tools with Azure yet. I will update the docs to remove.


Ben (@frescoanalytics) · 2025-04-28

Nico. Appreciate your response! two quick follow-up questions, 1) any plan to support Azure Tools soon? 2) is the aisdk documentation page open sourced?


Jacob Paris (@jacobparis) · 2025-04-28 · ♥ 1

Nico has submitted this fix already but yes the docs are open source. Here's the link to the page in quesiton

https://github.com/vercel/ai/blob/main/content/providers/01-ai-sdk-providers/03-azure.mdx


Ben (@frescoanalytics) · 2025-04-28

Great! Thank you. Look forward to more progress and integration with Azure OpenAI