Using a website as a knowledge source but the agent has to use the search bar function within.

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I'm trying to build an agent that can take the user's request and use it to search in the Title field on a website. Example: Show me projects about Roofing. Unfortunately, the agent is unable to do this when I just added it as a knowledge source.

Here is the link I am trying to use:

https://www.myvendorlink.com/external/contracts

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Michael E. Gernaey 52,851 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Using a website as a knowledge source but the agent has to use the search bar function within.

Hi @NS-03121808-0

So I just want to explain a little more about public websites, they are not "crawled" in the general sense, they are indexed. So if you say search Title for XYZ it will not do that.

It will index the value of Title (in most cases) based on what would render for it as it connects to it, but it is not a crawler and unless you are using PAD, CoPilot itself is not a "query fields on a web page".

Does not work like that.

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Thank you!
Sincerely, Michael Gernaey

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Romain The Low-Code... 2,055 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Using a website as a knowledge source but the agent has to use the search bar function within.

hello

Agent and IA use knowledge to provide answer. This knowledge could be datas like document or web pages with content.

To get datas from a search engine you have few option :

- tell the agent to construct a link like a google search : https://www.google.com/search?q=copilot+studio : but the website need to support this, it's not a standard, this sample work only for google.

- use the web site API : it's web service provide to query the datas. In agent universe sometime website provide more advanced solution call "MCP : model contexte protocol" that are service created to interact with agent to provide data to the agent when you make a query

- Use "computer control by AI" solution like Microsoft "computer use" wich could allow an agent to act like an human with a keyboard an mouse and make search on website

Hope this help

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