PluginStatsWeb Search for Copilot installs statistics
By Microsoft (223 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · AI
Gives access to search engines from within Copilot
Web Search for Copilot has 186,633 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1600 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 2.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 2.63 / 5 from 8 ratings
About Web Search for Copilot
Web Search for Copilot
This extension showcases:
• Chat Participant & Tool APIs • prompt-tsx • How to leverage the language models provided by GitHub Copilot • Leveraging the Authentication & Secret Storage API to handle API keys provided by users
Description
Get the most up-to-date and relevant information from the web right in Copilot.
This is powered by the Tavily search engine.
You'll need to acquire an API key from this service to use this extension. Upon first use, it will ask you for that key and store it using VS Code's built-in secret storage, and can be managed via VS Code's authentication stack as well just as you would for your GitHub account.
Chat Participant
This extension contributes the @websearch chat participant which is capable of handling questions that likely need live information from the internet. You can invoke it manually using @websearch when did Workspace Trust ship in vscode? or if you have intent detection enabled, it will get picked up automatically for web-related questions.
Chat Tool
This extension contributes the #websearch chat tool as well which is similar to the participant but is useful for providing context from the web in other chat participants. For example: • @workspace /new #websearch create a new web app written in Python using the most popular framework
Additionally, if you are working on your own Chat Particpant or Tool, you can consume this Chat Tool via the vscode.lm.invokeTool API.
Settings
• websearch.useSearchResultsDirectly - Skip the post processing of search results and use raw search results from the search engine instead.
Trademarks
This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- chat-participant
- language-model-tools
- tools
Where Web Search for Copilot sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
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Recent observations
Full history (3)Similar VS Code Marketplace AI plugins
Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.vscode-websearchforcopilot. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.