Which Web Search API gives the cleanest Markdown output for local RAG parsing?

r/LocalLLaMA
Generative AI

Web search APIs are essential for grounding local LLMs, but feeding raw HTML or messy JSON snippets wrecks context windows and reasoning in 8B-70B models. I want a clean web-grounding loop without building a heavy scraping middleware (like Playwright + Trafilatura). I'm looking for something that natively handles the heavy lifting and returns ready-to-ingest, noise-free Markdown. Here is my current shortlist: Brave Search (LLM Context API): Has a dedicated endpoint returning relevance-ranked, pre-formatted Markdown chunks.