[BUG] Web Search Returns 0 Results in WSL
Resolved 💬 21 comments Opened Jun 3, 2025 by GoldenE Closed Aug 20, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (ant-kurt, collaborator)
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Environment
- Platform (select one):
- [x] Anthropic API
- Claude CLI version: 1.0.10
- Operating System: Windows 11
- Terminal: Claude Code in WSL in a Bash terminal
Bug Description
Since the latest update all web searches are returning 0 results.
Steps to Reproduce
- Start claude code in WSL on windows
- Ask it to search the web for anything, for example "hello world"
- The terminal should show "Did 0 searches in 24s"
Expected Behavior
Search results to be returned for claude code to use
Actual Behavior
Asked claude code, as shown in the screenshot, to tell me what was returned and it said "The web search function returned a response indicating that results were found, but it only showed the header "Web search results for query: 'hello world'" without displaying the actual search result content. The function confirmed that results exist for the search term, but the specific details of what websites, links, or content were found in those results were not included in the response I received."
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Additional Context
Appeared to start happening with the latest update
21 Comments
Same here. Web search seems to be broken - MacOS too
UPD: fixed in v 1.0.16
+1 - xubuntu
+1 to confirm this is also happening on MacOS.
What's the status here, is this In Progress or still not picked?
Can we bump the priority as browsing is fairly major functionality?
+1 MacOS
+1 on macOS 15.5 / Claude Code 1.0.11
+1 on macOS 15.2 / Claude Code 1.0.11
Please bump up in priority if possible
bump
I also have this issue on Mac and v1.0.11 (Claude Code)
same issue on wsl2...
Yaz, this is ... not helping the productivity of me and my little buddy
The workaround I used is to ask claude code to make me a prompt for Claude Desktop, and then I let Claude Desktop do the web search for me. Cumbersome, but it works.
Same issue Macos
bumping for MacOS, even when i give URLs, it sometimes doesn't visit them at all.
Issue fixed for me by upgrading to 1.0.16
I have no idea why you get downvotes. Claude Code web search performs poorly compared to Desktop:
0 resultsI also resorted to using Claude Desktop for searches a couple of times and considering disabling the Web Search tool.
@ anthropic Ask Claude Code to centralize your Desktop/Web/Claude Code functions for me 🙏 😆
Latest update appears to have resolved the bug, I believe this ticket can be closed
Possibly not? Every time it searches the web it says
Did 1 search in ___swhereas on Claude's chat interface itself their web search functionality usually gives "10 results" for each search. Is this happening under the hood? If so, it should be displayed more obviously as to what results it found, would be great.This apperas to be working now for this environment
Environment
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We've made some changes to Web Search, and I'm unable to repro this on latest. Let me know if you're still running into this!
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