Parallel Web Systems API

Overview

This skill gives access to Parallel Web Systems APIs for web search, deep research, and content extraction. In the scientific-writing workflow it is the default tool for general web information — news, market and technical data, documentation — while scholarly paper retrieval goes to alterlab-research-lookup.

Primary interface: Chat API (Beta, OpenAI-compatible, POST /v1beta/chat/completions) for search and research. Secondary interface: Extract API v1 (POST /v1/extract) for URL verification and special cases.

API Documentation: https://docs.parallel.ai API Key: https://platform.parallel.ai Environment Variable: PARALLEL_API_KEY

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