Implementation:Openai Openai python Response Web Search Searching

Knowledge Sources	Openai_Openai_python OpenAI API Reference
Domains	API_Types, Responses_API
Last Updated	2026-02-15 00:00 GMT

Overview

Concrete type for representing an event emitted when a web search call is actively executing during a streaming response, provided by the openai-python SDK.

Description

ResponseWebSearchCallSearchingEvent is a Pydantic model representing the response.web_search_call.searching streaming event. It is emitted while the web search tool is actively executing a search query. The event carries item_id identifying the output item, output_index for positional context, and sequence_number for stream ordering.

Usage

Import this type when you need to track the active searching phase of a web search tool call during streaming, for example to update a status indicator.

Code Reference

Source Location

• Repository: openai-python
• File: src/openai/types/responses/response_web_search_call_searching_event.py

Signature

class ResponseWebSearchCallSearchingEvent(BaseModel):
    """Emitted when a web search call is executing."""

    item_id: str
    output_index: int
    sequence_number: int
    type: Literal["response.web_search_call.searching"]

Import

from openai.types.responses import ResponseWebSearchCallSearchingEvent

I/O Contract

Fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
item_id	str	Yes	Unique ID for the output item associated with the web search call.
output_index	int	Yes	The index of the output item that the web search call is associated with.
sequence_number	int	Yes	The sequence number of the web search call being processed.
type	Literal["response.web_search_call.searching"]	Yes	The type of the event. Always response.web_search_call.searching.

Usage Examples

import openai

client = openai.OpenAI()

stream = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    input="Find the current weather in Tokyo.",
    tools=[{"type": "web_search_preview"}],
    stream=True,
)

for event in stream:
    if event.type == "response.web_search_call.searching":
        print(f"Searching the web (item {event.item_id})...")

Related Pages

• Environment:Openai_Openai_python_Python_3_9_Plus